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Oikeiōsis

Appropriation: the Stoic account of how care for oneself expands to embrace all humanity.

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

Oikeiōsis, making one’s own, describes the natural development by which a living being first cares for its own preservation, then for family, city and finally the whole human race. Hierocles pictured it as concentric circles to be drawn ever closer to the centre.