Origins
Stoicism is a philosophy that began in ancient Greece, around the 3rd century BCE, with a guy named Zeno of Citium. He started teaching his ideas in Athens, Zeno and his disciples used to meet and at a place called the Stoa Poikile, which is where the name “Stoicism” comes from.
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- Stoicism originated in Athens with Zeno of Citium, around 300B.C.
- Stoic philosophy is centered on a metaphysical principle: that reality is governed by logos and that what happens is necessary.
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