Stoic Terms
Adiaphora: indifferent
Agathos: the good
Agxinoia: quick moral sense
Aidēmosyne: sense of honor
Amathia: ignorance in the sense of lack of wisdom (leading to moral error, appearing as evil)
Andreia: courage, fortitude (cardinal virtue)
Apatheia: freedom from disturbing desires and emotions, or passions
Apoproēgmena: dispreferred indifferents
Aproptōsia: non-precipitancy (in judgment)
Aretê: virtue, excellence at one's function
Argos logos: the lazy argument (if everything is determined, what’s the point of doing anything?)
Ataraxia: absence of fear
Boulêsis: rational desire for virtue (positive emotion)
Chara: rational elation toward virtue (positive emotion)
Dikaiosynê: justice, integrity (cardinal virtue)
Eleutheria: freedom from passions
Enkrateia: self control
Epistemê: knowledge
Epistrophê: philosophical conversion
Epithumia: irrational striving for something not valuable (negative emotion)
Êthikê: ethics
Êthos: one's character
Euboulia: good judgment
Eu̯dai̯monía: flourishing, by means of living an ethical life
Eulabeia: rational aversion toward vice (positive emotion)
Eumēchania: resourcefulness, knowing what to do in difficulties
Eupatheiai: healthy passions
Eupsychia: mental stoutness
Euroia biou: smooth flow of life
Eutrapelia: wittiness (a social grace)
Gnōthi seauton: know thyself
Hêdonê: irrational pleasure over something not valuable (negative emotion)
Hêgemonikon: conscious ruling faculty
Homologia: harmony
Hormê: action (discipline of)
Hypoexairēsis: Sage reservation (fate permitting)
Hypomnemata: “reminder,” a written spiritual exercise to ingrain precepts and for later review, Marcus’ Meditations being an example
Hupolêpsis: value judgment (to be suspended)
Kalos: honorable, beautiful
Kata physin: according to nature
Kathēkon: appropriate, rational, action (the thing one ought to do)
Katorthōmata: acts of a virtuous person
Koinônikai: common welfare of mankind
Logikê: logic (including rhetoric and epistemology)
Logos: rational principle governing the universe
Lupê: irrational grief at failure (negative emotion)
Megalopsychia: literally, great-souledness: magnanimity
Oikeiôsis: properly yours, leading to Hierocles’ circle of expanding affection
Orexis desire: (discipline of)
Orthos logos: right motives
Paidartan: taking time off to calm down before responding to a situation
Pathē: unhealthy emotions / passions
Phantasia katalêptikê: an impression that grips us, something self evident
Philanthrôpia: love of mankind
Philostorgia: natural affection (of parents toward their children)
Phobos: irrational fear (negative emotion)
Prokoptôn: (pl. prokoptontes; female sing. prokoptousa; female pl. prokoptousai) someone who is making progress as a Stoic
Prosochē: the practice of attention
Prosōpon: the kind of person one is, one’s chosen identity
Phronȇsis: practical wisdom (cardinal virtue), rendered in Latin as prudentia
Physika theoria: theoretical understanding
Physikê: physics (meaning all natural science and metaphysics)
Politeia: the (ideal) Republic
Proēgmena: preferred indifferents
Prohairesis: volition, our capacity for choice, rendered in Latin as voluntas
Propatheiai: involuntary emotional reactions
Prosochê: applying key ethical precepts to the present moment, mindfulness
Skopos: the target of an action
Sophia: wisdom
Sophos: the wise man, Sage
Sôphrosynê: self discipline, temperance (cardinal virtue)
Sunkatathesis: assent (discipline of)
Technē: craftsmanship, art
Telos: the purpose of an action
Tharraleotēs: confidence that nothing terrible can befall us