Universal Reason – Episode 44
Stoicism On Fire
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Universal Reason, the Ultimate Guide for a Stoic Life
Hado: Stoics believe there is nothing greater than the moral good, and therefore accepts what has been willed by destiny. In other words, universal reason is the rational order inherent in the cosmos, which we can understand because our human reason is a fragment of that universal reason. The stoics asserted there is objective truth, laws of nature and an objective standard of morality,. We are subject to those laws ofnature and its moral standard. As haydo notes, the stoic sage knows the same happiness as universal reason, which is allegorically personified by zeus.
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