philosophy · 300 BCE – 260 BCE
The Painted Colonnade
Zeno of Citium opens a school at the painted colonnade in Athens; Cleanthes and Chrysippus turn it into a system. The Stoics contribute the dichotomy of what is in our power and what is not, a physics of a rational cosmos, and a discipline of daily self-examination — each night reviewing whether the person one claims to be matched the person one was.
Advances
- The dichotomy of control: behaviour is ours, outcomes are not
- A universal system of reason (logos) in which moral and physical order are one
- Nightly examination of conscience as a repeatable self-audit practice
Landmarks
300 BCE
The Stoa Poikile
Zeno teaches from the painted colonnade; the school's name is its address.
260 BCE
Chrysippus systematises
Probabilistic logic and propositional inference enter Stoic logic here.
Who was arguing
Alignment stack at 260 BCE (0 of 20 techniques)
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