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en-wikipedia-org-3584		Kathekon - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1163	161	65	Kathēkon (Greek: καθῆκον) (plural: kathēkonta Greek: καθήκοντα) is a Greek concept, forged by the founder of Stoicism, Zeno of Citium. It may be translated as "appropriate behaviour", "befitting actions", or "convenient action for nature",[1] or also "proper function".[2] Kathekon was translated in Latin by Cicero as officium, and by Seneca as convenentia.[3] Kathēkonta are contrasted, in Stoic ethics, with katorthōma (κατόρθωμα; plural: katorthōmata), roughly "perfect action". According to Stoic philosophy, each being, whether animate or inanimate (plant, animal or human), carries on fitting actions corresponding to its own nature. But, according to the Stoic strict moral ideas, the acts of a layperson are always misguided (ἁμαρτήματα hamartēmata [1] "mistakes," or peccata), while the acts of the rare sage are always katorthōmata, perfect actions. Stoic philosophers distinguished another, intermediary level between kathēkonta and katorthōmata: mesa kathēkonta, or indifferent actions (which are neither appropriate, nor good).	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3584.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3584.txt