Living in agreement with nature is the principal theme of stoicism. The discipline of desire enables us to avoid pathos that comes from those irrational longings for apparent pleasures and irrational aversions to perceived evils. We will look at the practice of the discipline of desire in the next episode.
This podcast episode provides a new theoretical foundation for my previous blog post on The Discipline of Desire, which is being completely updated. Make sure to come back for the next episode where the spiritual exercise of the Discipline of Desire will build upon the theory of this episode.