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> Stoic philosophy, and audiotapes I ordered off a late-night TV infomercial. Would a stoic be happy or sad that stoic philosophy didn't work for him?
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 12y ago
> Stoic philosophy, and audiotapes I ordered off a late-night TV infomercial.
Would a stoic be happy or sad that stoic philosophy didn't work for him?
- manmal 12y agoHe would be happy because he's thankful he isn't dead yet.
- iokevins 12y agoGiven the milieu which gave rise to stoic philosophy, I suspect the latter.
- Kenji 12y agoA stoic does not judge reality like that. He acknowledges that it did not work and moves on. He need not ponder about the fact that it did not work because it cannot be changed and no thinking should be done without a purpose.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 12y agoStoic philosophy sounds something like mindfulness or meditation [0], except for the part about "no thinking should be done without a purpose." [0] http://amzn.com/0385303122 http://amzn.com/0385303122
- jkaunisv1 12y agoI think he would believe he is not far along enough in his stoic practice for it to have "worked", but happy with the progress he has made so far.