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Stoicism & Epicureanism
Though founded around the same time, Epicureanism and Stoicism have long been know as opposing philosophical theories. Epicureanism was a thought school devoted to simple pleasure and happy living, while Stoicism surrounded duty, order, and reason.
by Jiwan Park and Rossi Holland
Epicurus was founder of one of the most prominent philosophical systems in ancient Greece. Born in Samos, Epicurus started studying philosophy at age fourteen. From 327 B.C.E. to 324 B.C.E., Epicurus studied under Nausiphanes, follower of Democritus, in the city of Teos in Ionia. When he was eighteen, Epicurus went to Athens for a required two years of military service to gain Athenian citizenship. For almost ten years after that, there are no record of Epicurus until he is at the age of thirty-two. This is when he begins teaching. He starts at Mytilene, then teaches at Lampsacus. He died in 270 B.C.E. of prostatitis.
EPICURUS
Zeno is the founder of Stoic philosopy. Zeno came to Athens from phoenicia to learn about philosophy when he was 22 years old. After getting off from the boat he went in to a book store and read a book about Socrates (he was a classical Greek philosopher). Zeno taught in the colonnade in the Agora of Athens(known as the Stoa Poikile) in 301 B.C. Zeno was described as a haggard, tanned person, living a spare, ascetic life. With his characteristic and teaching of Cynic, he created stoic philosophy. His disciples was first called Zenonians but it changed to Stoics. Zeno divided philosophy in to three parts: Logic, physics, and ethics. His purpose of creating the philosophy was to make people happy by approaching them in right way. Cleanthes was born in Assos in the Troad about 330 B.C.With few amount of fortune he came to Athens and listened to Cynic's and Zeno's lessons. Cleanthes produced very little to philosophy that what was original, although he successfully preserved Zeno's legacy.His largest portion is called Hymn to Zeus (which has been preserved in Stobaous.) He came up with a theory concerning the immortality of the soul. He said that soul remains forever, regardless of it's kind, and value; Chrysippus (Greek Stoic philosopher) said souls of good remains forever. Chysippus went on to become Cleanthes'popil after being attracted to Stoic master's loyalty to Zeno of Citium. He was a student of Arcesilaus. He wan a public writer and debater. Most of Cyroysippus' ideology is shaped by his brief education with Zeno and later from Arcesialaus and Aristo of Chios. Chryippus made the Stoic system what it was. It was said "With out Chrysippus, there would have been no Stoa." In Logic: he created the formal logic ofthe Stoics and contributed much that was of value to psychology and epistemology. He mostly wrote the subject of Logic in Stoic and created the system called "propositional Logic."
Zeno & the Developers of Stocism
