The discipline of desire answers a profoundly important question in stoicism. What should we pursue? The stoic's answer is quite simple. We should desire and pursue an excellent character, otherwise known as virtue. Alternatively, we should be repulsed by or avoid one thing, and that is a bad moral character, vice. So how do we pursue virtue? By desiring only that over which we have complete control,. That which is completely up to us. You are listening to episode ten of stoicism on fire cast.