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CHRYSIPPUS (c. 280-2o6 B.c.)

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CHRYSIPPUS (c. 280-2o6 B.c.)  , See also:Greek philosopher, the third See also:great See also:leader of the See also:Stoics . A native of See also:Soli in See also:Cilicia (Diog . Laert. vii . 179), he was robbed of his See also:property and came to See also:Athens, where he studied possibly under See also:Zeno, certainly under See also:Cleanthes . It is said also that he became a See also:pupil of See also:Arcesilaus and Lacydes, heads of the See also:Middle See also:Academy . This impartiality in his See also:early studies is the See also:key of his philosophic See also:work, the dominant characteristic of which is comprehensiveness rather than originality . He took the doctrines of Zeno and Cleanthes and crystallized them into a definite See also:system; he further defended them against the attacks of the Academy . His polemic skill earned for him the See also:title of the " See also:Column of the See also:Portico." See also:Diogenes Laertius says, " If the gods use See also:dialectic, they can use none other than that of See also:Chrysippus "; ei pi 'yap iv X Quit &v ilv ZTO& (" Without Chrysippus, there had been no See also:Porch ") . He excelled in See also:logic, the theory of knowledge, See also:ethics and physics . His relations with Cleanthes, contemporaneously criticized by See also:Antipater, are considered under Sroics . He is said to have composed seven See also:hundred and fifty See also:treatises, fragments alone of which survive . Their See also:style, we are told, was unpolished and arid in the extreme, while the See also:argument was lucid and impartial .

See G . H . See also:

Hagedorn, Moralia Chrysippea (1685), Ethica Chrysippi (1715); J . F . See also:Richter, De Chrysippo Stoico ,;astuoso (1738); F . Baguet, De Chrysippi vita doctrina et reliquiis kI822); C . Petersen, Philosophiae Chrysippeae fundamenta (1827) ; A . Gercke, " Chrysippea " in Janrbiicher See also:fur Philologie, suppl. vol. xiv . (1885) ; R . See also:Nicolai, De logicis Chrysippi libris (1859) ; Christos Aronis, %p(ecaaoc ypaµµarmKL (1885); R . Hirzel, Untersuchungen zu Ciceros philosophischen Schriften, ii . (1882) ; L .

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Stein, See also:Die Psychologie der See also:Stoa (1886) ; A . B . Krische, Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der See also:alien Philosophie (1840); J . E . See also:Sandys, Hist . Class . Schol. i . 149 .

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