An Approach on Being and the Appearing of Ancient Stoicism

Abstract

This paper taking its inspiration from an ontologic reading of Pragmatism, where the totality of being finds all its development in the totality of its appearing, seeks for a similar subject into the realm of the Ancient Philosophy. The ancient Stoics exposed a notion about a physis that we, moderns, would call metaphysic. Asserting Nature as the true and divine Being, they assumed the difficulties and the possible paradoxes that result from the Man-Naaire relationship, with man himself dually nature and its interpreter and modifier through thoughts, words and deeds. This exposition intends to follow some fragments of that Hellenistic Philosophy in order to explain some angles of the problematic issue of Being and Appearance (phenomenon).