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1. Stoicism
   Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno; Stoics advocated the complete control of one's passions (e.g., joy and grief) and asserted that everything happens for the best; the Aeneid presents a Stoic hero in Aeneas, a man governed by fate and who needed to cut himself off from his emotions (i.e. in Boo...
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2. stoicism
   [n] - the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno 2. [n] - an indifference to pleasure or pain
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3. Stoicism
   Greek school of philosophy, founded about 300 BC by Zeno of Citium. The Stoics were pantheistic materialists who believed that happiness lay in accepting the law of the universe. They emphasized...
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4. Stoicism
   Sto'i·cism noun [ Confer French stoïcisme .] 1. The opinions and maxims of the Stoics. 2. A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
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5. stoicism
   stolidity noun an indifference to pleasure or pain
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6. Stoicism
   noun (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
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7. Stoicism
   • (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness. • (n.) The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
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8. Stoicism
   a school of thought that flourished in Greek and Roman antiquity. It was one of the loftiest and most sublime philosophies in the record of Western ... [59 related articles]
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9. stoicism
   
   • an indifference to pleasure or pain
   • the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno
   
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10. Stoicism
    Stoicism (stō'isizum) , school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium (in Cyprus) c.300 B.C. The first Stoics were so called because they met in the Stoa Poecile [Gr.,=painted porch], at Athens, a colonnade near the Agora, to hear their master Zeno lecture. He had studied with Crates the ...
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11. Stoicism
    Stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy that developed from Cynicism. Stoicism was founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium in Cyprus around 300 BC and is essentially a practical philosophy, the source of its ethics being the ideal of the wise man after the pattern of Socrates, who perceives that the tru...
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12. Stoicism
    Greek school of philosophy, founded about 300 BC by Zeno of Citium. The Stoics were pantheistic materialists who believed that happiness lay in accepting the law of the universe. They emphasized human brotherhood, denounced slavery, and were internationalist. The name is derived from the porch on wh...
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13. Stoicism
    `Stoicism` (Greek Στοά) is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by 3rd century BC-->. The Stoics believed that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a Sage (Sophos)|sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would n...
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