id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5972 Ancient Greek philosophy - Wikipedia .html text/html 7865 1074 60 The founder of Stoicism, Zeno of Citium, was taught by Crates of Thebes, and he took up the Cynic ideals of continence and self-mastery, but applied the concept of apatheia (indifference) to personal circumstances rather than social norms, and switched shameless flouting of the latter for a resolute fulfillment of social duties.[72] Logic and physics were also part of early Stoicism, further developed by Zeno's successors Cleanthes and Chrysippus.[73] Their metaphysics was based in materialism, which was structured by logos, reason (but also called God or fate).[74] Their logical contributions still feature in contemporary propositional calculus.[75] Their ethics was based on pursuing happiness, which they believed was a product of 'living in accordance with nature'.[76] This meant accepting those things which one could not change.[76] One could therefore choose whether to be happy or not by adjusting one's attitude towards their circumstances, as the freedom from fears and desires was happiness itself.[77] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5972.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5972.txt