RE: Stoicism
March 5, 2024 at 4:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2024 at 4:06 pm by Jillybean.)
I've actually studied Buddhism for years and Stoicism for half a year including daily readings of the ancient and modern Stoic philosophers, so I take issue with the idea that I'm just thoughtlessly parroting the views. Just because I haven't distilled the philosophy to something I can defend upon command in a paragraph hardly means I don't understand it.
Stoicism is not even remotely "selfish" and to say that simply shows me that you know little about it. It's about living your life with the virtues of Courage, Wisdom, Temperance and Justice. It's about living with a moral code, which obviously benefits others as well as yourself.
The bottom line is that it helps me tremendously - with my mental health, with my understanding of mortality and with my creativity (writing). I'm offering it to others who may find it beneficial but I'm certainly not pushing it on anyone or saying for instance that you will go to Hell for not subscribing to it.
Maybe some people here are too interested in simply tearing apart ANY idea as if it were solely an intellectual debate.
Stoicism is not even remotely "selfish" and to say that simply shows me that you know little about it. It's about living your life with the virtues of Courage, Wisdom, Temperance and Justice. It's about living with a moral code, which obviously benefits others as well as yourself.
The bottom line is that it helps me tremendously - with my mental health, with my understanding of mortality and with my creativity (writing). I'm offering it to others who may find it beneficial but I'm certainly not pushing it on anyone or saying for instance that you will go to Hell for not subscribing to it.
Maybe some people here are too interested in simply tearing apart ANY idea as if it were solely an intellectual debate.
