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Preferred indifferents in response to Cynicism and Epicureanism

The Cynics believed in living a simple life to an extreme extent. Life was not only devoid of all materialism, it was frequently devoid even of things considered social necessities because the Cynics viewed them more as ‘social constraints’. And living this way shamelessly was a central tenant of Cynicism.

The idea of a Preferred indifferent in Stoicism is in some ways an answer to this Cynical centre-piece: the Stoics did not believe in extreme sacrifice; but they also did not believe in excesses, like The Epicureans did.

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Zeno of Citium Zeno was a merchant who, while on a voyage from his hometown in modern-day Cyprus to Greece, was supposedly shipwrecked and lost everything he The Epicureans Founded by Epicurus, this school formed the other extreme of the scale weighed down on one side by Cynicism and with Stoicism in the middle. For Preferred indifferent The Stoic concept of a preferred indifferent is unique among Hellenistic philosophies such as Epicureanism and Cynicism. The Stoics advocated living
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Zeno of Citium Zeno was a merchant who, while on a voyage from his hometown in modern-day Cyprus to Greece, was supposedly shipwrecked and lost everything he
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