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stoic
has definitions from the fields of Greek antiquity,philosophy
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[ adjective ] seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Synonyms Examples "stoic courage" "stoic patience" "a stoical sufferer" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)We find it in the later Stoic conception of man 's natural condition which included the community of all possessions . Platonic , Stoic , early Christian , monastic , canonist or theological communism ; we are concerned with Utopian communism - that_is , simply communism as it appears in the imaginary commonwealth of Utopia , as More conceived it . In_contrast_to this Stoic patristic view , Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely_on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (Greek antiquity,philosophy) a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
Examples "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Finally , the conception of the natural community of all possessions which originated with the Stoics was firmly fixed in a tradition by More 's time , although it was not accepted by all the theologian philosophers of the Middle_Ages . Related terms |
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[ noun ] someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
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[ adjective ] pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
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