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Oikeiōsis (Appropriation)

The Stoic story of how a creature's instinct to protect itself widens, ring by ring, into care for family, strangers, and all humankind.

Oikeiōsis ('appropriation,' or 'making one's own') is the Stoic account of human development from the ground up: every animal begins by recognizing and caring for its own constitution, and in rational beings this self-concern naturally reaches outward to others and finally to virtue itself. Originated by the early Stoics Zeno and Chrysippus (3rd c. BCE), and later pictured by Hierocles as a series of concentric circles of belonging, it grounded Stoic ethics, the idea of natural sociability, and the cosmopolitan vision of a single human community.

How it traveled

de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
Formiae · -43
explains
Discourses
Nicopolis · 108
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De fraterno amore
Chaeronea · 120
applies
De Stoicorum repugnantiis
Chaeronea · 120
challenges
The Handbook
Nicopolis · 135
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Fragments
Nicopolis · 135
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Ad Se Ipsum
Vindobona (Vienna) · 170
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Toxaris vel amicitia
Samosata · 180
applies
Avot DeRabbi Natan
Yavneh · 220
Vitae philosophorum
— · 240
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Jerusalem Talmud Taanit
Tiberias · 400
Shemot Rabbah
Tiberias · 600
Ruth Rabbah
Eretz Yisrael (travels) · 600
Mivchar HaPeninim
Granada · 950
Duties of the Heart
Zaragoza (Saragossa) · 1080
Sha'arei Tzedek
Castile · 1265
Zohar
Guadalajara · 1280
Sefer HaKanah
Castile · 1380
Sefer HaIkkarim
Soria · 1425
Akeidat Yitzchak
Tarragona · 1490
Avodat HaKodesh (Ibn Gabbai)
Cairo · 1523
Sforno on Leviticus
Bologna · 1550
Tomer Devorah
Tzfat · 1560
Sha'ar HaGilgulim
Tzfat · 1570
Reshit Chokhmah
Tzfat · 1575
Ohr HaChammah on Zohar
Tzfat · 1620
Mikdash Melekh, RaMaZ Commentary on Zohar
Tzfat · 1680
Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah
Padua · 1730
Mesillat Yesharim
Amsterdam · 1738
Derekh Hashem
Amsterdam · 1740

Key passages(20)

Alexander of Aphrodisias, De anima libri mantissa 19.55↗explains

De anima libri mantissa · Alexander of Aphrodisias