Everything You Should Know About Ancient Stoicism (Episode 59)
Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied
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Nietzsche's Argument Against Stoicism
The goal of life is to minimize our pain, maximize our pleasure. We do that when we're virtuous people with minimal desires who don't want revenge. But virtue isn't the end goal; it's a means to an end of a kind of happiness. The Stoics are constructing some kind of myth about nature about your real nature in air quotes. That kind of obscures reality. Blinds, blinds is from reality,. especially as we start to rely on this providential or good universe. And so living in accordance with nature, understanding the world as it really is - maybe that counts as knowledge but what makes it good?
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