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Stoicism as a philosophy didn't promise prosperity in this life or salvation in the next life, but did promise happiness in the present life. This system encouraged Roman citizens to look within, to find happiness and peace within the inner self. The founder of stoicism was a Cypriot named ...
Stoicism, or Stoic philosophy, is a philosophy of personal ethics and a methodology for seeking practical wisdom in life. A key principle of the ancient Stoics was the belief that we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us. They also...
Moral philosophy began in Greece and had two components: virtue and reason. According to Plato, the soul possessed three parts: appetite, spirit and reason. Accordingly, each part of the soul had its own virtues: temperance, courage and wisdom. The most important virtue was wisdom because it ...
Stoicism holds that the key to a good, happy life is the cultivation of an excellent mental state, which the Stoics identified with virtue and being rational. Two fundamental principles can both be found in the Handbook, a short work summarizing the ideas of Epictetus. The first is that some...
Livy was responsible for the greatHistory of Romein 142 volumes. His works has always been cited by later statesmen, writers and scholars such as Niccolo Machiavelli and Shakespeare. The architecture of ancientRomeadopted the Greek style for its own purposes, but the Romans also developed a new...
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One of them was Epictetus. Stoicism holds that the key to a good, happy life is the cultivation of an excellent mental state, which the Stoics identified with virtue and being rational. Two fundamental principles can both be found in the Handbook, a short work summarizing the ideas of ...
BeforeChristianityappearedinRoma,ancientRomanswerepolytheists.Theyadoptedmany cultsfromotherreligions,fusingthemintotheirownreligion.AccordingtoGreekcultureand others’culture,theycreatedtheirowngodsandmyth,suchasJupiter,Juno,andVenus,whichbecomesubjectmatterfortheartist,writers,andarchitectsintheircreativeproduction. ...