2013-12-07
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Stoicism is typically broken down into three parts, logic, physics, and ethics.
The chronology of its initial development in the Hellenistic Age is also typically broken down into three parts,
the early stoa, middle stoa, and late stoa.
Each phase of its development made notable breakthroughs in different areas, but it's important to note a few things.
By far, the most popular and most notable thinkers of the stoic school are three people,
Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus.
Unfortunately, they didn't live during the early or middle stoa periods,
all three of them made their contributions during the late stoa,
and they didn't drastically change logic or physics,
all three of them made their greatest contributions in the field of ethics.
To talk about the ideas of these three men alone would be a very pigeon-holed view of stoicism, but on the other hand,
to do an entire episode on each one of them would be filled with redundancy,
because two-thirds of their entire philosophy is almost exactly the same as the other two guys.
Because of this, next episode will be almost solely dedicated to understanding stoic ethics,
and the great idea is the three of those men laid out,
but in the meantime,