Stilpo (or Stilpon; Greek: Στίλπων gen.: Στίλπωνος; c. 360-c. 280 BC) 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 he was 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 pupil was Zeno of Citium the founder of Stoicism.
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