https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/tags/hellenistic-philosophy/ Recent content in Hellenistic Philosophy on Philosophy in Summary — Thinkers & Syntheses Hugo en Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/stoicism-ethics-virtue-art-living-nature/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/artigos/stoicism-ethics-virtue-art-living-nature/ Stoicism from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius: virtue as the sole good, mastery of the passions, the physics of the cosmic logos, and the enduring influence of Stoic ethics on philosophy and culture. https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/chrysippus/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/chrysippus/ Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280–c. 207 BCE) was the third scholarch (head) of the Stoic school in Athens and is considered, alongside Zeno of Citium, the… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/cicero/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/cicero/ Roman philosopher, orator, and statesman. The most important figure in transmitting Greek philosophy to the Latin world. His eclecticism synthesized… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/diogenes-de-sinope/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/diogenes-de-sinope/ "Diogenes the dog" (kynikós) — refoundaer and principal figure of Cynicism. He lived in a barrel in Athens, reduced his needs to a minimum, and despised… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/epiteto/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/epiteto/ Phrygian ex-slave; the Stoic who most lived what he preached. His central distinction structures all Stoic ethics: what depends on us (eph' hêmin… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/epicuro/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/epicuro/ Born on the island of Samos around 341 BCE, Epicurus founded in Athens, in 307 BCE, the school known as the Garden (Kepos) — a community of friends that… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/lucrecio/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/lucrecio/ Roman poet and philosopher, author of De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things), the greatest philosophical poem of Antiquity. He systematized in Latin… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/marco-aurelio/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/marco-aurelio/ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ruled Rome from 161 to 180 CE and is remembered as the last of the "Five Good Emperors" and as the most celebrated example of… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/plotino/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/plotino/ Born around 205 CE, probably in Roman Egypt, Plotinus studied for years in Alexandria under the enigmatic master Ammonius Saccas and later settled in… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/pirro/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/pirro/ Founder of Ancient Skepticism. Accompanied Alexander the Great to India and encountered ascetics who influenced his thought. Left no writings; lived… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/seneca/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/seneca/ Lucius Annaeus Seneca was born in Corduba, in Hispania, around 4 BCE, the son of Seneca the Elder, a renowned teacher of rhetoric. He was the most… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/sexto-empirico/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/sexto-empirico/ Greek physician and philosopher, the principal systematizer of Pyrrhonian skepticism. His works are the most complete source on the ancient skeptical… https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/zenao-de-citio/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://filosofiaemresumo.com.br/en/pensadores/zenao-de-citio/ Founder of Stoicism. He taught at the Stoa Poikilê (Painted Porch) in Athens — hence the name of the school. After hearing the story of Socrates through…