New research suggests the universe is conscious, and that it possesses a sense of purpose.

Photo:@nikitahatesu Orchid sanctuary and butterfly garden This place is the most attractive place on Nha Trang Orchid Island , where this is a paradise of butterflies with a diverse species of more ...

He may have died laughing, but Chrysippus gifted us the blueprint for modern psychology and the Stoic wisdom that can calm our modern world.

Galen is well known as a critic of Stoicism, mainly for his massive attack on Stoic (or at least, Chrysippean) psychology in "On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato" (PHP) 2-5. Galen attacks both ...

An ambitious project to reconstruct the thought of the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus through the Herculaneum Papyri PHerc. 1421 and PHerc. 1038 gets under way at the University of Turin. The project ...

Laughter can be deadly in rare instances, as shown by three bizarre cases where people have died from laughing too hard. These include ancient Greek philosopher Chrysippus of Soli, who allegedly ...

Chrysippus is said to have died from laughter after witnessing a donkey being fed wine. While an unusual and rare occurrence, the most popular account suggests he saw a donkey eating figs and jokingly ...

During that time, often divided into three stages (ancient, middle, and new), figures such as Cleanthes of Assos, Chrysippus, Panaetius of Rhodes, and Posidonius emerged. While Chrysippus structured ...

Why Stoicism has been compared to Buddhism: An exploration of similarities between these two philosophical traditions.