Stilpo

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Stilpo of Megara
Stilpo, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle, where he is called "Silphon".[1]
Born	c. 360 BC Megara
Died	c. 280 BC
Era	Ancient philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Megarian school
Main interests	Logic, dialectic, ethics
Notable ideas	The universal is fundamentally separated from the individual and concrete

Stilpo or Stilpon (Greek: Στίλπων, Stílpōn; c. 360 – c. 280 BC)^[2], in Latin sources also Stilbo or Stilbon,^[3] was a Greek philosopher of the Megarian school. He was a contemporary of Theophrastus, Diodorus Cronus, and Crates of Thebes. None of his writings survive, but he is described in the writings of others as being interested in logic and dialectic, and he argued that the universal is fundamentally separated from the individual and concrete. His ethical teachings approached that of the Cynics and Stoics. His most important followers were Pyrrho, the founder of Pyrrhonism, and Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism.