The Stoic Sage

The stoic sage is able to retain his implacable attachment to happiness because he understands that all is for the best, since it is ruled by providence. But now we might worry, the stoics are telling us very little about what the sage would in fact do. They've told us he will prefer some indifferent things like health, but we can't be exactly sure when he would give up on these preferred items. If the stoic's advice boils down to do whatever the ideal sage would do, that will be pretty disappointing given that none of us have ever met an ideal sage,. nor are we likely to. Remember that, for the stoics, nature is in some sense