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I don't think stoicism belongs in what you've described as a positive state. It's about our attitude towards the world and experiences as they unfold. I don't t
by slothtrop 8y ago
I don't think stoicism belongs in what you've described as a positive state. It's about our attitude towards the world and experiences as they unfold. I don't think you can extrapolate giving more to the world from that. In fact expectations are irrelevant in that framework.
- darkerside 8y agoDon't conflate "positive" in this domain with any typical connotations of the word. Stoicism is certainly "positive" in the sense of what one gives to the world, in relationship to what one expects to receive, because a Stoic has no expectations to receive anything from the world.