Chrysippus of Soli

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Chrysippus of Soli was a foundational Greek Stoic philosopher whose prolific writings and systematic thought shaped Stoicism into a major Hellenistic school.

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instanceOf Greek philosopher
Hellenistic philosopher
Stoic philosopher
logician
activeIn Athens
associatedWith Stoa Poikile in Athens
birthDate c. 279 BC
birthPlace Ancient Greece
Cilicia
Soli in Cilicia
citizenship Ancient Greek
deathDate c. 206 BC
describedBy Diogenes Laërtius
doctrine compatibilism
determinism
materialism
teleological view of nature
era Hellenistic philosophy
follows Cleanthes of Assos
Zeno of Citium
givenName Chrysippus
influenced Cicero
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Stoicism
Seneca the Younger
ancient logic
later Stoic philosophers
influencedBy Aristotle
Cleanthes of Assos
Heraclitus
Plato
Socrates
Zeno of Citium
knownFor Stoic syllogistic
compatibilist theory of fate and free will
doctrine of cosmic conflagration (ekpyrosis)
doctrine of oikeiosis (appropriation)
ethical doctrine of living according to nature
propositional logic
theory of lekta (sayables)
theory of pneuma as active principle
legacy considered second founder of Stoicism
made Stoicism a systematic philosophical school
memberOf Stoic school at the Stoa Poikile
movement Stoicism
name Chrysippus of Soli
notableFor developing Stoic ethics
developing Stoic physics
foundational contributions to Stoic logic
systematizing Stoic philosophy
occupation philosopher
teacher
philosophicalDiscipline ethics
logic
metaphysics
philosophy of language
theology
positionHeld third head of the Stoic school in Athens
school Stoicism
workCount over 700 works (reported)
worksStatus survive only in fragments
wroteAbout epistemology
ethics
logic
physics
theology


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