PHIL 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Parking Meter, Stoicism
11 Dec 2018
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Change the internal: but this can be hard (sect. 1: once we change our expectations, we won"t be upset, some people do drugs to change their internal world, this makes their experience better, but he says don"t do drugs because there are better ways. We would benefit from having an honest and realistic conception of our situation. the bathhouse (sect. 3: people are attached to certain objects and when that object is broken, people get really upset, that is a really unrealistic attitude to have to an object because objects do break and get lost. Instead, say you are fond of the object (jug), but it can break. If we lose it, maybe hope that someone else finds it: we should apply this to other people. If you can"t be with the one you love, love the one you"re with: we can get fixated on a person, but they don"t reciprocate those feelings.
