It would be lovelier still if you could secure happiness, free of emotion, poised and dependent on no one except yourself.Here the view of emotion is overly simplistic: emotion equals weakness. The role of emotion in motivation (for virtues like courage), attention, or even the proper functioning of memory, is completely unrecognized.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Here's the sort of formulation that gives Stoicism a bad name...
Epictetus, Discourses, Book IV, 4:
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Attention/Focus,
Epictetus,
Fortitude/Courage,
Poise
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