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Fair enough. I haven't read much Holiday, it would by hard to maintain that belief having read a) the sources b) the scholarship. Money though, always motivating.
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By practicing apatheia, Stoics aimed to live lives of virtue, guided by reason and free from the distractions of excessive emotions.Virtue is the end goal, Eudaimonia-Wellbeing - A flourishing life, a byproduct.
Hope this helps.
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4. Cultivating inner strength and resilience.
5. Promoting harmony with nature and acceptance of the natural order.
6. Supporting the attainment of **eudaimonia** (a flourishing life).
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It contributes to the pursuit of virtue by:
1. Freeing individuals from emotional disturbances caused by external events.
2. Aligning emotions with reason and fostering rational decision-making.
3. Helping individuals focus on what is within their power or choice
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#marcusautealius
#actualstoicism
#stoicism
#meditations
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The present is the same for everyone; its loss is “the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?”
Do you find this comforting?
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Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest.
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Did he really? How odd. I thought Holiday was pretty on board with him being pantheist/monist ie the Roman gods were aspects of the logos/cosmos/nature as a singular thing but not a personal god. Epictetus sails closest to the personal god imho.
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Christ were the Nazis at Dawn Service not enough for this flog
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So sad. Another woman dead effectively at the hands of men.
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Utter horshite
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Hope* all thumbs today
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Should be *Magpie Tales
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How that it helps. Loving the beard btw.
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Source:
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How dare Peter Dutton - a man whose sole objective has been pushing far right tactics of hate and division the entire time he has been in politics, ever speak about a war where men fought and died to stop a far right regime of hate and division. #auspol