Stoicism (In Our Time, 3/3/05)

In Platos Symposium a character called Aristophanes tells a story about Love. He says that once, near the beginning of time, there were three types of human, .\r
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Stoicism, the third great philosophy of the Ancient World, was founded by Zeno in the fourth century BC and flourished in Greece and then in Rome. Its ideals of .\r
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The state of being alone can arise for many different reasons: imprisonment, exile or personal choice. It can be prompted by religious belief, personal necessity .