Zeno, a mathematician as well as a Stoic, told men to look into themselves, because there was nowhere else to look, and to obey the laws of physis, nature, but none other. Society was a fundamental hindrance to the all-important aim in life – which was self-sufficiency. He and his supporters advocated extreme social freedom: sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, incest, the eating of human flesh. Human law is irrational, ‘nothing to the wise man’.100
