Dnext

November 30, 2023 7:45am

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Birne Helene

August 11, 2023 6:13pm

How to Be a Stoic in Your Everyday Life

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How to Be a Stoic in Your Everyday Life: Philosophy Professor Massimo Pigliucci Explains

To a viewer on the internet, TED Talks and TEDx talks may seem more or less the same. That makes sense, since the main difference between them isn't of format, but physical location: TED talks take place at official TED conferences, and TEDx talks...

Secret Hippie

March 20, 2023 1:29am

The next mountain over from expertise is the one of mentoring.

http://www.notzen.net/2015/04/not-zen-157-next-mountain.html

#notzen #taoism #buddhism #mentoring #nature #nature #stoicism #zensunday

Not Zen 157: Next Mountain

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Secret Hippie

November 11, 2022 6:23pm

#daoism #stoicism #raccoon #humor

Paul Kater

May 12, 2022 5:40pm

No matter what is happening in the world, we must be like the rock with the waves crashing around it, as Marcus Aurelius said. It stands fast and still, and eventually the sea falls still...if only for a moment.

#Stoicism

Paul Kater

March 5, 2022 4:41pm

Separate matters into two buckets: what's in our control and what's not in our control.
- Epictetus

The truth is: so much of what we spend time on is not in our control.

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November 11, 2021 8:00pm

Extreme Stoicism

A new ideal for myself: extreme stoicism. This means to be irrationally stoic. To swallow insults like chewing glass, to harness your anger as energy for personally productive things, and to hold your tongue like a dragon.

It takes a lot more skill to be stoic, than to say what’s really on your mind.

I propose a simple idea: when you’re angry, or feel injustice, wait at least 48 hours before responding.

Anger out of strength, or anger out of weakness?

When a lot of people get angry and heap insults on the other person, it is often our weakness. However if you really do feel you’re in the right, your anger is a virtue. But still to say what’s on your mind, it’s still often weakness.

Because when you say what’s on your mind, it almost never resolves the issue at hand. And injustice is inherent in life.

Also when the doubt, be silent. You don’t always need a response for everyone’s comment.

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Extreme Stoicism

A new ideal for myself: extreme stoicism. This means to be irrationally stoic. To swallow insults like chewing glass, to harness your anger as energy for personally productive things, and to hold y…

Secret Hippie

October 30, 2021 10:54pm

#stoicism #humor #age

Herbert Braselmann

September 22, 2021 9:32am

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Massimo Pigliucci's philosophy homepage and blog on 'Medium' with links to his other sites. Usually free and open to read, except for Patreon.

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September 3, 2021 5:00pm

Ethics are Aesthetic

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Not sure if any other thinkers have thought this but,

Ethics are aesthetic.

What do I mean?

Assuming that ethics is the philosophy of action (embodied reality, interaction with other human beings in society), then the question is:

How should one act in society?

It is ultimately an aesthetic thing. To act what you consider elegantly, beautiful, strong, and in a lofty aristocratic way.

What would John Wick do?

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If we consider John Wick as part Stoic and part Samurai, then we think --

When we see how John Wick acts in the film, do we think it is 'cool' or badass?

I say so. To speak less (Laconic, like a Spartan soldier). To not complain about pain and suffering. To be one-minded in our pursuits.

Spartan 300

Ethics are public

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I do not think there is such a thing as 'private' ethics. When we think about the 'public', it has to do with any other human being besides you. For example, how you interact with family members or your children is also the 'public'.

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Aspiring towards an insanely great ideal

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Then it seems the aesthetic goal we have of ourselves:

Seek some sort of ideal or perfection in terms of our bodily physique, as well as our ethics (how we interact with others).

For myself:

Stoic ideal: To become harder, less petty. Less soft.
Muscular ideal: To become more muscular (Hercules ideal).

STOICISM 101

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Ethics are Aesthetic

Not sure if any other thinkers have thought this but, Ethics are aesthetic.

Justin

August 23, 2021 4:45pm

"Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided." — #Epictetus #Stoicism

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June 18, 2021 2:02pm

RUTHLESS ADAPTATION.

In today’s Brave New World, what is the attitude we need to thrive? Ruthless adaptation is the technique and the way.

STOICISM 101

Become invincible:

The Stoic Masters

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RUTHLESS ADAPTATION.

In today’s Brave New World, what is the attitude we need to thrive? Ruthless adaptation is the technique and the way.

Rhysy OLD ACCOUNT

February 25, 2020 2:14pm

Stoicism week : part 2

Yesterday I began with a look at the main difficulty with Stoicism : why care about anyone's so-called "suffering" if literally everything is a subjective opinion ? If a victim shouldn't care they're being abused, why should an abuser care that they're being abusive ? This does seem to cause real problems for Epictetus, as while he mostly advocates for everyone being nice to each other, he also not infrequently slips into selfishness and victim blaming.

His solution, explored here in part two, appeared to be a quite ingenious one. Nothing matter except opinion... but opinion does itself matter, and can be judged in a more than subjective way. Someone committing criminal acts intrinsically harms themselves. Thus a victim can learn to endure hardship whereas a criminal cannot escape self-harm through their own acts : Stoicism is definitely not supposed to be a license for immoral behaviour.

... except that while this might be a clever solution, it's not terribly convincing. No examination as to what constitutes good or bad behaviour is given, so who gets to decide who's hurt themselves or not ? And if criminals aren't aware that what they're doing is wrong, then it makes very little sense to describe them as "suffering" in any meaningful sense. Most fundamentally of all, how can their actions be said to be immoral if they don't actually hurt anyone else ?

There aren't any easy answers to this. The problem seems to stem from some very definitely absolute ideas about the nature of free will, of which more in part three tomorrow.

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Extreme Stoicism

Anger out of strength, or anger out of weakness?

STOICISM 101

The Stoic Masters

Ethics are Aesthetic

What do I mean?

What would John Wick do?

Ethics are public

Aspiring towards an insanely great ideal

STOICISM 101

The Stoic Masters

RUTHLESS ADAPTATION.

STOICISM 101

The Stoic Masters