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  • 81Prohairesis — (variously translated as moral character , will , volition , choice , intention , or moral choice [Keith Seddon, Epictetus Handbook , p. 228] ) is a foundational concept in the Stoic philosophy of Epictetus. The use of this Greek word was first… …

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  • 82Séneca — Para otros usos de este término, véase Seneca (desambiguación). Séneca …

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  • 83porch — n. 1. Portico, entrance way, vestibule. 2. [With The prefixed.] The Stoic philosophy, philosophy of Zeno, school of the Stoics …

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  • 84Stoicism — /ˈstoʊəsɪzəm/ (say stohuhsizuhm) noun 1. the Stoic philosophy. 2. (lower case) conduct conforming to stoic precepts; repression of emotion; indifference to pleasure or pain …

  • 85silver age — 1. Class. Myth. the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness. 2. (usually caps.) a period in Latin literature, A.D …

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  • 86CATO, MARCUS PORTIUS —    1) or CATO MAJOR    surnamed Censor, Priscus, and Sapiens, born at Tusculum, of a good old family, and trained to rustic, frugal life; after serving occasionally in the army, removed to Rome; became in succession censor, ædile, prætor, and… …

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  • 87PALINGENESIA —    name equivalent to new birth, and applied both to regeneration and restoration, of which baptism in the former case is the symbol; in the Stoic philosophy it is preceded by dissolution, as in the rejuvenescence process of MEDEA (q.v.) …

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  • 88MORT - Les sociétés devant la mort — Étudier d’un point de vue anthropologique les questions relatives à la mort, c’est essayer d’esquisser les grandes lignes des comportements des hommes face à la mort, au cours des âges et dans les principales aires culturelles de l’humanité. Le… …

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  • 89History of logic — Philosophy ( …

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  • 90Cynic — The Cynics ( el. Κυνικοί, la. Cynici) were an influential group of philosophers from the ancient school of Cynicism. Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. This meant rejecting all… …

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