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I really do agree with the advantages of Stoicisms ... and agree that they 'do it better in the East' ... but to say: "No wonder the Stoic sage, in Western cul
by edblarney 10y ago
I really do agree with the advantages of Stoicisms ... and agree that they 'do it better in the East' ...
but to say: "No wonder the Stoic sage, in Western culture, has never obtained the popularity of the Zen master."
I think is pushing it a little far.
There are a lot of Christian Monks - now and throughought the ages who would be borderline stoics. And many big thinkers as well.
We (Westerners) just didn't define it very well :)
- kwhitefoot 10y agoYou don't have to live on bread and water to be a Stoic. You don't have to be a big thinker either. It's a practical philosophy not a theoretical one. Also it seems to me that you could be surrounded by adherents of this philosophy and not know it because they are hardly likely to make a great fuss about it. You might infer it from their behaviour.
- douche 10y agoIndeed. One of the more prominent Stoics was a Roman emperor, who had access to every luxury that the world of that time possessed.
- hinkley 10y agoHis son, however, was an egomaniac. Who, I just learned, renamed Rome and all of the months of the year after himself. He was assassinated in the first year of his new calendar.
- kwhitefoot 10y agoPerhaps you should elaborate a little.
- douche 10y agoToo late to edit, but I was mostly replying to this part: > You don't have to live on bread and water to be a Stoic.