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Role Ethics: The Stoic Decision-Making Framework (Episode 57)

Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied

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The Role of Rationality in Human Beings

The role of a human being is having two aspects that flow from nature as it were. The rational aspect comes to proper management of impressions, pursuing knowledge and rationality in the social sphere. It also has this providential side, this telos that is the purpose. And if you fulfill that role, you can think of a kind of a total lack of friction between who you are and the nature of reality around you or the world.

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