‘Stoicism’ was a philosophy that flourished for some 400 years in Ancient Greece and Rome, gaining widespread support among all classes of society. It had one overwhelming and highly practical ambition: to teach people how to be calm and brave in the face of overwhelming anxiety and pain.
We still honor this school whenever we call someone ‘stoic’ or plain ‘philosophical’ when fate turns against them: when they lose their keys, are humiliated at work, rejected in love or disgraced in society. Of all philosophies, Stoicism remains perhaps the most immediately relevant and useful for our uncertain and panicky times.
Our individual natures are all parts of the universal nature wherefore the chief good is to live in accordance with nature which is the same thing as in accordance with ones own nature and with the universal nature.
appreciation of stoicism;
A system of lofty principles illustrated in the life's of many noble men. The subject has perennial fascination. It has both speculative and practical values. Its analysis of human nature and its theory of knowledge gives insight to the problems of the universe and the right mode to guiding life.
Formula.
1. Live agreeably to Nature.
2. Man as a rational being has the power of recognizing the rationality of the cosmic order and cheerfully submitting to it.
3. Withdraw from the futile pursuit of happiness in varying and uncertain circumstances saying give me beauty in the inward soul may the inward and
outward man be at one, that the highest human bliss is the mind conscious to itself of right. the mind free from passion is a citadel. Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself looses his misery.
4. Universal brotherhood of man.
is this not the widest principal of what they call Hinduism. For the term Hinduism is a word coined for people who live tuned to nature. Its all coming back call it the (vicious) circle.
We still honor this school whenever we call someone ‘stoic’ or plain ‘philosophical’ when fate turns against them: when they lose their keys, are humiliated at work, rejected in love or disgraced in society. Of all philosophies, Stoicism remains perhaps the most immediately relevant and useful for our uncertain and panicky times.
Our individual natures are all parts of the universal nature wherefore the chief good is to live in accordance with nature which is the same thing as in accordance with ones own nature and with the universal nature.
appreciation of stoicism;
A system of lofty principles illustrated in the life's of many noble men. The subject has perennial fascination. It has both speculative and practical values. Its analysis of human nature and its theory of knowledge gives insight to the problems of the universe and the right mode to guiding life.
Formula.
1. Live agreeably to Nature.
2. Man as a rational being has the power of recognizing the rationality of the cosmic order and cheerfully submitting to it.
3. Withdraw from the futile pursuit of happiness in varying and uncertain circumstances saying give me beauty in the inward soul may the inward and
outward man be at one, that the highest human bliss is the mind conscious to itself of right. the mind free from passion is a citadel. Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself looses his misery.
4. Universal brotherhood of man.
is this not the widest principal of what they call Hinduism. For the term Hinduism is a word coined for people who live tuned to nature. Its all coming back call it the (vicious) circle.
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