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The Stoics, The Sceptics And The Newplatonist

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THE THINKERS OF THE STOICS, THE SCEPTICS AND THE NEWPLATONIST
In my scopes of introducing the thinkers of the following philosophical schools: the Stoics, the Sceptics and the Newplatonist, I will present these thinkers through this following outline: definition of the school; the thinker with his biography, his works and thinking.
Firstly, the Cosmology of the Stoic was firmly deterministic and orderly, as the eternal course of things passes through returning creative cycles, in according with the creative cycles or logos spermatikos. In the Stoical thinkers, emerged four figures: Marcus Tullius Cicero; Philo of Alexandria; Lucius Annaeus Seneca and Marcus Aurelius.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was a Roman politician, a lawyer, an …show more content…

He was a successful career as a lawyer and accumulated a personal fortune. After falsely being accused of plotting against Nero, Seneca took his own life in 65 AD. As with the other Stoics, Lucius’s philosophy was the belief in a simple life devoted to virtue and reason. He was a stoic philosopher but with a somewhat practical bent. Comparing with Epicurean, like the Epicureans - Stoics thought that a proper understanding of the world would transform our daily lives. Unlike the Epicureans, the Stoics did not pursue a hedonistic lifestyle. With Seneca, the only good is virtue – doing the right thing is a very importance and showing an attitude of indifference to all things. His thinking about God Providence was that God guides us along the part set for us. Besides, by acting in accord with our nature revealed by our inner guide and by being content with one’s lot in life, people would be happiness. Altruism and simple living were the Seneca’s ideas of correct …show more content…

He was also a Roman emperor. He died of the plague. His only work is the meditations or Writings to himself, written in the midst of the Parthian war. His Meditations laid in their practical and aphoristic Stoic representing an example of a living ethic, teaching closer to religion than to philosophic speculation. E.g. the happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thought; therefore, make sure that you do not entertain unsuitable notions to virtue and reasonable nature. Then the idea of “in accordance with nature” was from a biological outlook. Sentient life of human strives towards self-preservation that leads a being to look for which is in tune with its nature. Whilst many thinkers might suppose health and wealth are in tune with human, the central of Marcus’s stoic concern on only infallible good is the virtue: wisdom, justice, courage, and

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