It's been a while since I've read Aurelius and Seneca and so on, so I might be remembering incorrectly, but is "couching success as something that happens entirely within the ego" a fair summary of stoicism? I always took stoicism as a way to build a strong, internal foundation from which go forth into a complicated and messy world, rath…
It's been a while since I've read Aurelius and Seneca and so on, so I might be remembering incorrectly, but is "couching success as something that happens entirely within the ego" a fair summary of stoicism? I always took stoicism as a way to build a strong, internal foundation from which go forth into a complicated and messy world, rather than some sort of nihilistic asceticism focused on one's navel. As examples, Aurelius and Seneca were major actors in their worlds with, again, just from what I remember, rich spiritual, inner, and communal lives.
It's been a while since I've read Aurelius and Seneca and so on, so I might be remembering incorrectly, but is "couching success as something that happens entirely within the ego" a fair summary of stoicism? I always took stoicism as a way to build a strong, internal foundation from which go forth into a complicated and messy world, rather than some sort of nihilistic asceticism focused on one's navel. As examples, Aurelius and Seneca were major actors in their worlds with, again, just from what I remember, rich spiritual, inner, and communal lives.