Anyone tell me anything about the stoic philosophers?

Question

I want to know....NOW!

Answer 1

Stoicism is a school of philosophy the founding of which is associated with Zeno of Citium, which became the foremost popular philosophy among the educated elite in the Greco-Roman Empire,[1] to the point where, in the words of Gilbert Murray, "nearly all the successors of Alexander...professed themselves Stoics."[2] It teaches that self-control, fortitude and detachment from distracting emotions, sometimes interpreted as an indifference to pleasure or pain, allows one to become a clear thinker, level-headed and unbiased. A primary aspect of Stoicism would be described as improving the individual’s spiritual well-being. The individual implied would be thus that of the educated elite, because these members of society were the most likely to be capable of the erudition, the proliferation, and the participation in the values of Stoic philosophy.

Virtue, reason, and natural law are prime directives. By mastering passions and emotions, stoics believe it is possible to overcome the discord of the outside world and find peace within oneself. Stoicism holds that passion distorts truth, and that the pursuit of truth is virtuous. Greek philosophers such as Cleanthes, Chrysippus, and later Roman thinkers such as Cicero, Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius, Cato the Younger, Dio Chrysostom, and Epictetus are associated with Stoicism. In Cicero's case, it should be emphasised that while he shared many of the moral tenets of Stoicism, he was not a Stoic himself but an eclectic. Stoic philosophy is usually contrasted with Epicureanism.

Answer 2

it was founded about 300 B.C. byZeno. Some of them (not sure of the spelling);
Mark Aurelius, Seneka, Cicero,etc
they believed thatall natural prosesses are oparts of the nature and therefore people should endure them and learn self-control.they also believed in natural law and that everything has a reason

Answer 3

One of them was Nero's tutor. His name was Seneca and he killed himself by slashing his wrists in a bathtub.

Answer 4

u lost me on this one

Answer 5

visit this site
http://www.san.beck.org/GPJ5-StoicPhilosophers.html