stoicism intro from a handbook for new stoics
The introduction boils stoicism down very nicely into a concise summary and then expands on the content.
- Live according to nature
- three-discipline practice
- dichotomy of control
It qualifies this summary with the following: Stoicism is easy to understand, but it’s pointless to understand it without putting it to practice.
Live according to nature
- physics
- logic
- ethics
To live ethically requires an understanding of the physical world and the ability to reason about the world, and that requires logic.
Bring the mind to bear on you problems.
This Seneca quote (mentioned on page 4) is the distillation of what it means to live according to nature. The author posits that this function of stoicism makes it different from other “Self-help” because instead of just trying to make the practitioner feel better, it aims to make the practitioner be better.
Physics
Study of natural science
Logic
Everything needed to think and communicate well
Ethics
How to live with meaning
Three Disciplines
- Desire - what is best to want/avoid
- Action - how to behave toward others
- Assent - arriving at “correct” judgements
Dichotomy of Control
Some things you can control and some things you cannot.
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