Ataraxia: Tranquility of the mind, freedom from pain and fear
Apatheia: A state of mind free from emotional disturbance; freedom from all passions
Hormē: Motivation/impulse
Cogito ergo sum: I think, therefore I am
Sentio ergo sum: I feel, therefore I am
Τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει: Everything flows, and nothing stays.
Synkatathesis: Assent; the ‘principal cause’ of human action and the locus of agency and autonomy
Prohairesis: ‘choice’ or ‘decision;’ our will that we control
Euthymia: ‘Tranquility;’ the sense of our own path and how to stay on it without getting distracted by all the others that intersect it; leisure is an integral part
Ta eph’hemin, ta ouk eph’hemin: What is up to us, what is not up to us
άνέχου and άπέχου: Persist and resist
Logos: Reason; the principle which separates the divine from the rest of the universe; the die Schnitt or ‘split’ between human and animal
Pathos: A quality, as of an experience or work of art that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, compassion, or sorrow
Ethos: Credibility or character; the moral element or disposition that determines action rather than thought or emotion
Telos: Full potential or inherent purpose or objective of a person or thing, similar to the notion of an ‘end goal’ or ‘raison d’être’. Moreover, it can be understood as the supreme end of man’s endeavor
Aphor mai: Our inborn resources
Quod vitae sectabor iter: What path of life shall I pursue?
Οχλου ανοητοι/Ochlou anoitoi: Mindless mob
Repetita iuvant: Repetition is helpful
Agathos: Good
Kakos: Bad
Ekklisis: Aversion
Orexis: Desire
Eleutheria: Freedom
Kalon: Honorable
Symphonia: Harmony of the universe
Phantasia: Impression
Premeditatio malorum: The premeditation of the evils and troubles that might lie ahead. It’s the exercise of imagining things that could go wrong or be taken away from us
Memento homo, memento mori: Remember you are just a man, remember that you must die
Sympatheia/συμπάθεια: Connectedness with the cosmos, ‘Oceanic feeing,’ a sense of belonging to something larger
sub specie aeternitatis: from the perspective of eternity
Oikeiôsis: ‘Familiarization with’ or ‘appropriation of’ other people’s concerns as if they were our own
Hypolêpsis: literally “grasping under” or “taking up.” It is whenever your mind creates an automatic value judgement that with which you have the power to assent or dissent
Providence: ‘General plan of the cosmos’
Pantheistic: Identifies God as being apparent within Nature but is absent and void of a personality
Panentheistic: More meta view where God is pantheistic yet pervades the universe as well. Distinctly in and from beyond the universe
Katâlepsis: a philosophical term referring to the idea of grasping or apprehending something with certainty or conviction, often used in discussions about knowledge and belief
Saṃsāra: an eastern philosophical term literally meaning “wandering” or “world,” with the connotation of cyclic, circuitous change
