PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Good Life, Stoicism, Asceticism
10 Feb 2016
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At the beginning of the handbook, he outlines several of the central tenets of stoicism: We can only control what is within our doing. The things that we can control include our opinions, impulses, desires, and aversions. We have no control over our bodies, possessions, or representations. The order of things universe of the comos is like: our judgments are under our control, but the order of things is not. (no control of the scheme of things) The stoics believe that there is a rational order to the universe. Part of the problem with human desires or judgments is that we expect or want things to happen over which we have no control. This stance requires recalibrating our understanding of the difference between good and bad. Just as a target is not set up to be missed, in the same way nothing bad by nature happens in the world ( 27).
