Stoicism

aesopstortoise · 2015-05-27T07:34:28+00:00

I think, I think, we need a link:

http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/what-is-stoicism/

DevilishRogue · 2015-05-27T09:46:39+00:00

Stoicism in practice is merely determination in the face of adversity.

Lord_Triffid · 2015-05-27T14:26:50+00:00

"A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says ‘fuck you,’ to fate."

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile, p152

imo, stoicism goes one step further than having determination in the face of adversity, by turning adversity into advantage.

Stoicism is also about learning to master oneself, because the only thing one can master is themselves. It also teaches that although we are obliged to feel our emotions, we are not obliged to to allowing those emotions to control our reactions. Emotional reactions are always optional.

Personally, I feel like this might be relevant to the MRA. I think this way of thinking has been denied younger generations of men... in the interest of molding boys into perfect, enlightened, new age male companions for women, we have been (imo) that we are at the mercy of our emotions, that externalities are in control of those emotions, and that women's emotional well being are at the mercy of what we, as men, do or don't do.

Perhaps I'm wrong about that, I don't know.

Lord_Triffid · 2015-05-27T14:29:09+00:00

I've only just begun studying the stoics. Currently, I'm reading Seneca's epistles:

http://www.stoics.com/seneca_epistles_book_1.html#‘IV1

Title	Stoicism
Author	Lord_Triffid
Upvotes	7
Comments	5
Date	May 27, 2015 1:31 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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