PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Stoicism, Sage Gateshead, Conditionality
4 Mar 2015
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Everything in philosophy focuses on how to live the best life you can. Stoics believe aristotle went too far with theory. Believe virtue is the most important thing, agreed with socrates. Choose it if it has no bad consequences. But virtue is what allows you to live the most philosophical life. Some of the things people think to be of supreme value (health, wealth, family) are matters of indi erence according to the stoics. Indi erent is not bad, but to only take it if there are no strings attached. Futile to struggle against forces out of your control. There is no fault in nature; if things don"t go how you want, the fault is in your expectations, not nature"s results. Do not ask humans to live like dogs, but to live to our own nature, only in the life of the mind/reason. We live according to nature to the extent of rationality, logos.
