(March 3, 2024 at 8:08 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(March 3, 2024 at 7:38 pm)Jillybean Wrote: Just wondering if anyone else here follows the philosophy of Stoicism. I'm finding it aspects of it to be very useful as practical advice for living in the world. I follow modern authors like Ryan Holiday as well as the historical Stoics, particularly Epictetus.
Have you looked into the Stoic's metaphysics at all?
Their ideas about how to live derived directly from their views about how the Logos pervades the universe. I'm not sure I'd want to take their ethical advice if I rejected all of its foundations.
Basically, the One emanates the Logos. This was common to several schools of thought in those days, including the Neoplatonists. And of course it is taken into Christianity with John 1:1.
Nah, I'm not into metaphysics. For me, the origin of the idea matters less than its practical usefulness, and I find the tenets of Stoicism to be useful to me. YMMV obviously.
