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Stoicism Flashcards

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What is the ideal plationic

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Goof life of rationality
Regulated emotions
Controlled appetites

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Most fundamental teaching of stoicism

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Stoic fork: what is in our control and what is not

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What is in your control

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The judgments you make you action and reactions

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What are the four virtues if stoicism

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Wisdom
Justice
Courage
temperance

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Why are stoics always trining to act within the virtues

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Because these virtues are in their control

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Why do people get angry

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Because their hopes are too high

Lower your expectations

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Why is life so short according seneca

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Because we waste most of it doing useless things

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What is contemporary stoicism

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Contemporary self-help movement
Helps with the collapse of religion
Rise of stoics on social media

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What do stoics say about positive thinking

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Don’t have to be positive all the time, we can allow negative thinking

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What are the 3 steps of Epictetus of misfortune

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  1. It was meant to be
  2. Apply stoic
  3. Accept faith
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Theological determinism

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The world is wishing gods plan

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Cosmological

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Then universe is designed

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Scientific

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Cause and effect, everything that happens is a result of what happens before it

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What is the purpose of keeping a journal

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So your don’t sleep walk through life

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Momento mortality

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Contemplate, to find meaning and prioritize in your life

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16
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Hedonism

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Maximin pleasure minimizing pain

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Epicurean hedonism

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Ataraxia: ideal soul
Intellectual pleasure > sensory
Enduring > momentary

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Cyrenaic

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Sensory > intellectual

19
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Friends, freedom, philosphy

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Freedoom- self-sufficient

Philosophy - analyze your life

20
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Tetrapharmakos

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Don’t fear god
Don’t fear death
What is good is easy to get
What is bad is easy to forget

21
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Why should we fear gods

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No such thing as divide providence, universe is made up atoms

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Why should we fear death

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Death does not affect the living and dead

23
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Symmetry

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You didn’t know your life before you were born nor after, we didn’t know what it was before we were born

24
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Discipline and desire

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We categorize what is vain and what is natural

25
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Minamilism

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Living a simple life

26
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What is bad is easy to forget

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Momentary - i broke my leg it will eventually go away

Chronic - long lasting but eventually you will get used to it

27
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How would a stoic react to criticism?

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Go to their souls , realize that they are suffering, their opinion should hold value

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.Definition of Stoicism

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Being able to endure pain or pleasure by controlling your judgement main philosophy is stoic fork

29
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What is the definition off Epicureanism

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Advocated for hedonism, maximizing pleisure

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