This led [the Stoics] to coin and use a word that is still crucial to our modern vocabulary: cosmopolitanism, which literally means ‘being a citizen of the world.’ Or as Socrates—arguably the most important influence on all Hellenistic schools of philosophy—put it: ‘Never reply to one who asks [your] country, ‘I am an Athenian,’ or ‘I am a Corinthian,’ but ‘I am a citizen of the universe.’
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![Massimo Pigliucci](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.heroic.us%2Fauthors%2Fheadshots%2Fmassimo-pigliucci.jpg&w=640&q=75)
Author
Massimo Pigliucci
Prof. of Philosophy at City College, evolutionary biologist, student of Stoicism. Author of A Handbook for New Stoics.