Ariston of Chios

Ariston of Chios was an ancient Greek philosopher . He came from Chios and was active around 250 BC. Chr.

Ariston was a student of Zeno of Kition and was one of the founders of the Stoic philosophy . The name comes from the vestibule of the Athenian agora (Greek στοά ποικίλη "painted vestibule"), which served as the first meeting place for the Stoics. Stoic philosophy is based on the belief that emotions like envy and anger arise from misjudgments. Intellectual and moral perfection was sought and identified with calmness of mind ( including apathy , autarky , ataraxia ). Eratosthenes was one of Ariston's most important students .

A peculiarity of Ariston's teaching was that he did not consider indifferent things (adiaphora), like most Stoics, at least according to their naturalness to be better or worse (prohairesis), but really regarded them as completely indifferent.

literature

Christian Guérard, François Queyrel: Ariston de Chios . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , Volume 1, CNRS, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04042-6 , pp. 400-404
Peter Steinmetz : Ariston from Chios. In: Hellmut Flashar (ed.): Outline of the history of philosophy . The philosophy of antiquity , Vol. 4/2: The Hellenistic philosophy. Schwabe, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-7965-0930-4 , pp. 558-561

Web links

Hans von Arnim : Ariston 56 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 957-959.

personal data
SURNAME	Ariston of Chios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	3rd century BC Chr.