Stoicism Flashcards
(29 cards)
What is the ideal plationic
Goof life of rationality
Regulated emotions
Controlled appetites
Most fundamental teaching of stoicism
Stoic fork: what is in our control and what is not
What is in your control
The judgments you make you action and reactions
What are the four virtues if stoicism
Wisdom
Justice
Courage
temperance
Why are stoics always trining to act within the virtues
Because these virtues are in their control
Why do people get angry
Because their hopes are too high
Lower your expectations
Why is life so short according seneca
Because we waste most of it doing useless things
What is contemporary stoicism
Contemporary self-help movement
Helps with the collapse of religion
Rise of stoics on social media
What do stoics say about positive thinking
Don’t have to be positive all the time, we can allow negative thinking
What are the 3 steps of Epictetus of misfortune
- It was meant to be
- Apply stoic
- Accept faith
Theological determinism
The world is wishing gods plan
Cosmological
Then universe is designed
Scientific
Cause and effect, everything that happens is a result of what happens before it
What is the purpose of keeping a journal
So your don’t sleep walk through life
Momento mortality
Contemplate, to find meaning and prioritize in your life
Hedonism
Maximin pleasure minimizing pain
Epicurean hedonism
Ataraxia: ideal soul
Intellectual pleasure > sensory
Enduring > momentary
Cyrenaic
Sensory > intellectual
Friends, freedom, philosphy
Freedoom- self-sufficient
Philosophy - analyze your life
Tetrapharmakos
Don’t fear god
Don’t fear death
What is good is easy to get
What is bad is easy to forget
Why should we fear gods
No such thing as divide providence, universe is made up atoms
Why should we fear death
Death does not affect the living and dead
Symmetry
You didn’t know your life before you were born nor after, we didn’t know what it was before we were born
Discipline and desire
We categorize what is vain and what is natural
