RE: Stoicism
March 6, 2024 at 4:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2024 at 4:46 pm by Jillybean.)
(March 5, 2024 at 4:59 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(March 5, 2024 at 4:05 pm)Jillybean Wrote: Maybe some people here are too interested in simply tearing apart ANY idea as if it were solely an intellectual debate.
You mean this isn't an intellectual debate?
No, I don't consider it to be SOLELY an intellectual debate - as I said, Stoicism has been helpful to my mental health, useful to my understanding of morality, and inspired me creatively. But perhaps "intellectual" is the wrong word because the one poster whose post I found offensive was clearly not operating from a place of logic or intellect.
His words were "I just don’t see how practising virtue benefits anyone beyond the practitioner. Might as well be a hermit in a cave."
What????
Because practising Stoic virtues like Justice and Courage have zero benefit to anyone beyond the practitioner, right??? It's not like courage and justice could benefit others, or society as a whole.
No worries. I have blocked that poster because in my experience it's useless to engage with someone who makes that kind of generalization.
