Sympatheia

Jul 6, 2021

11:50

Chrysippus The Fighter: Philosophy as “a cultivation of rightness of reason.”
Stoicism is “a philosophy of endurance and inner strength- of transcending one’s limits and measuring oneself against a higher internal standard” -Lives of The Stoics, Ryan Holiday
"Runners in a race ought to compete and strive to win as hard as they can, but by no means should they trip their competitors or give them a shove. So too in life; it is not wrong to seek after the things useful in life, but to do so whole depriving someone else is not just.” -Chysippus.
Part of Chrysippus’s ethical breakdowns was the development of Stoicism’s concept of Sympatheia. This was rooted in Zeno’s belief that we all belong to one common community.
“Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe.” -Marcus Aurelius
Remember human beings are made for each other.
If it’s bad for humanity it’s bad for us.
“Be strict with yourself, and patient with others.” -Marcus Aurelius