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School of Miletus For several centuries prior to the great Persian invasions of
Greece, perhaps the very greatest and wealthiest city of the Greek world was
Miletus. Situate about the centre of the Ionian coasts of Asia Minor, with four
magnificent harbours and a strongly defensible position, it gathered to itself
much of the great overland trade, which has flowed for thousands of years
eastward and westward between India and the Mediterranean; while by its great
fleets it created a new world of its own along the Black Sea coast. Read more
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Stoics Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy (born circa 340
B.C.), was a native of Citium in Cyprus. The city was Greek, but with a large
Phoenician admixture. And it is curious that in this last and sternest phase of
Greek thought, not the founder only, but a large proportion of the successive
leaders of the school, came from this and other places having Semitic elements
in them. Read more ...

Sceptics and Epicureans The first phase of the change, Scepticism, or
Pyrrhonism, as it was named from its first teacher, need not detain us long.
Pyrrho was priest of Elis; in earlier life he accompanied Alexander the Great as
far as India, and is said to have become acquainted with certain of the
philosophic sects in that country. Read more ...

Sophists A certain analogy may perhaps be discerned between the progression of
philosophic thought in Greece as we have traced it, and the political
development which had its course in almost every Greek state during the same
period. The Ionic philosophy may be regarded as corresponding with the kingly
era in Greek politics. Philosophy sits upon the heights and utters its
authoritative dicta for the resolution of the seeming contradictions of things.
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Lycurgus There is so much uncertainty in the accounts which historians have left
us of Lycurgus, the lawgiver of Sparta, that scarcely anything is asserted by
one of them which is not called into question or contradicted by the rest. Their
sentiments are quite different as to the family he came of, the voyages he
undertook, the place and manner of his death, but most of all when they speak of
the laws he made and the commonwealth which he founded. Read more ...

Physic We have now before us the main facts with regard to the Stoic view of
man's nature, but we have yet to see in what setting they were put. What was the
Stoic outlook upon the universe? The answer to this question is supplied by
their Physic. Read more ...

Ethic We have already had to touch upon the psychology of the Stoics in
connection with the first principles of logic. It is no less necessary to do so
now in dealing with the foundation of ethic. Read more ...

Logic The Stoics had a tremendous reputation for logic. In this department they
were the successors or rather the supersessors of Aristotle. Read more ...

Division of Philosophy Philosophy was defined by the Stoics as 'the knowledge of
things divine and human'. It was divided into three departments; logic, ethic,
and physic. This division indeed was in existence before their time, but they
have got the credit of it as of some other things which they did not originate.
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Philosophy among the Greeks and Romans Among the Greeks and Romans of the
classical age philosophy occupied the place taken by religion among ourselves.
Their appeal was to reason not to revelation. Read more ...