The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
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The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
Stoicism makes you desire the challenge of a calamity. And Stoics look down on luxury: about a fellow who led a lavish life, Seneca wrote: “He is in debt, whether he borrowed from another person or from fortune.”1 Stoicism, seen this way, becomes pure robustness—for the attainment of a state of immunity from one’s external circumstances, good or ba... See more
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Attaining complete peace of mind is for Spinoza the true religious salvation, which makes us accept everything that happens to us as necessary rather than as something that we can change. The problem with such peace of mind, as Hegel points out, is that it is completely empty. The Stoic says that he is committed to “the true,” “the good,” and “the
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