-Theory of Four Temperaments
Stoicism
- There is a divine plan
- Nothing is accidental
- Accept one's fate with courage (or at least indifference)
- Live in harmony with nature & the plan
Neoplatonism (Plotinus, 204-270 A.D.)
- The universe is a hierarchy, with an unknowable god at the top, followed by a series of divine creatures, then humans.
- Humans are divine souls imprisoned in degrading, material bodies.
- Turn away from corrupting temptations of the flesh and toward the spiritual world of truth, beauty, and goodness in the realm of the forms.