Old Stoa

[stoh-uh]

noun

1. the earliest phase of Stoicism, lasting from the latter part of the 4th century to the early part of the 3rd century b.c.

Example Sentences

Stoic rationalism, in its logical development, is menaced wherever we meet the perception that the course of the world must in some way be helped, and wherever the contrast between reason and sensuousness, that the old Stoa had confused, is clearly felt to be an unendurable state of antagonism that man cannot remove by his own unaided efforts.

Read more on Project Gutenberg