School of Life--哲学科普系列day6:斯多葛学派(the stoics)敢于直面惨淡的人生。相关词stoic源起于古希腊塞浦路斯人芝诺(ZenoBC336-BC264)在雅典集会广场的画廊(Stoa Poikile)聚众讲学而得名。本期介绍其两位罗马时期著名继承者,及其应对人生两种处境的态度:...
Stoicism wasn’t meant to be confined to the classroom, it was to be put to use during the most challenging moments of our lives. Montaigne, a profound follower of the Stoics, neatly summarised the scale of the Stoic ambition: “To philosophise is to learn to die.” “Friendship is ...
The stoics used their understanding of perception, action, and will to create an operating system for life. The Three Disciplines A common thread central to the philosophy of the meditations and documented in detail by Pierre Hadot in theInner Cidital, are the three disciplines of perception, ac...
“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”— Marcus Aurelius The question of why and how we are supposed to live has been contemplated for centuries. Absurdist Albert Camus wrote that life is like the Si...
The ancient Stoics notoriously argued, with thoroughness and force, that all ordinary "emotions" (passions, mental affections: in Greek, pyh) are thoroughly bad states of mind, not to be indulged in by anyone, under any circumstances: anger, resentment, gloating; pity, sympathy, grief; ...
1. Visualize Your Life Without the Things You Love “He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.”—Seneca William Irvineargues that “the single most valuable technique in the Stoics’ psychological toolkit” is a tactic he calls “negative visualization.” To...
In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to avoid the ...
想读 Philosophy as a Way of Life 书名: Philosophy as a Way of Life 作者: Pierre Hadot 副标题: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault 页数: 320 出版社: Wiley-Blackwell 出版年: 1995-8-3 第83页 Spiritual Exercises The example of the Stoics For them, all mankind’s woes ...
Character isn’t an inherent trait—it’s forged through repeated choices and actions. The Stoics sincerely believed in the power ofhabitsto shape a fulfilling life and emphasized practicing virtues like courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom. Modern psychology echoes this understanding, with a 201...
Can we render death harmless to us by perfecting life, as the ancient Epicureans and Stoics seemed to think? It might seem so, for after we perfect life—assuming we can—persisting would not make life any better. Dying earlier rather than later would shorten life, but a longer perfect li...