cosmopolitanism

universal

occupation / innovator as

mathematician

innovator in the field of

philosophy

intellectual movement

stoicism

philosopher

scholarch of the Stoic school

is the idea that goodness requires serving other human beings as best one can.

as the traces of Chrysippus' On Lives make clear, the Stoics believe that goodness requires serving other human beings as best one can, that serving all human beings equally well is impossible, and that the best service one can give typically requires political engagement. ' (stanford encyclopedia)

is terms, similitudes, and humors received by man and nation and prevailing either by conquest or by the authority of genius.

The general, he defines as that which consist of terms, similitudes and humours, and are received by man nations. It prevails, either by conquest, such as caused the Roman language and wit to be established in all the countries wherein they sowed civilization by their victories... or, by the situation, authority and commanding genius of one people over another. Thus, the Greeks became teachers of the art of conversation to the ancients... and the French, of late, to the moderns.' (Sir Christopher Wren and His Times By James Elmes 159)

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