A person gets depressed when his or her boyfriend or girlfriend breaks up with him or her. Parents feel life is miserable after the departure of their children. A businessman is thwarted because he has lost all his possessions during the financial crisis. Stoicism presents you a fantastic approach to avoid grief. All these negative emotions are the result of caring too much of what does not belong to you. You must let it go because those you do not have complete control over are externals. According to Stoics, there are two categories for subjects on the earth: some are up to you, and others are not up to you. Your opinions, desires, and impulses are your own doing while your bodies, possessions, and reputations are not your own doing. Thus,
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“What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things. For example, death is nothing dreadful, but instead, the judgment about death that it is dreadful--that is what is dreadful” (Epictetus, 5). Because death is something that we cannot avoid in our life and it is always with us since the beginning of our life, the only thing we can do is to adopt a proper attitude of being apathetic. It is our attitudes and judgments towards things, not the things themselves that cause us to be upset and distressed. Being indifferent toward the externals allows us to stay away from suffering. However, skepticism argues that we cannot only live on indifferences. When we destroy the nerves, the pleasure goes together with it. Life is like a game; there is no pleasure existed if we do not care about it at all. “We lose all the pleasure of the game by our phlegm and carelessness” (Hume, 355). Even so, I think the stoicism did not imply “indifferent” to be uncaring but rather having no intrinsic moral value that is neither good nor bad. The Stoics rely on the preferred indifferent, which is following your preferences in the world of externals. Because human beings naturally have inclinations to some externals, stoicism wants to maintain this choice to be an acceptance that every person is obliged to natural laws. Everyone does have to play the game of the life, what is …show more content…
“Let death and exile and everything that is terrible appear before your eyes every day, especially death; and you will never have anything contemptible in your thoughts or crave anything excessively” (Epictetus, 21). However, Hume opposed that although each person considers death in various ways, death is the same end for the fool and the philosopher. My view is that death is always with us, and the more we anticipate death, the less we will get affected by it. Many ancient philosophers took the dismissive view of death while the common view is fearing death. Thus, it is not same for the fool and philosopher in considering
“What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things. For example, death is nothing dreadful, but instead, the judgment about death that it is dreadful--that is what is dreadful” (Epictetus, 5). Because death is something that we cannot avoid in our life and it is always with us since the beginning of our life, the only thing we can do is to adopt a proper attitude of being apathetic. It is our attitudes and judgments towards things, not the things themselves that cause us to be upset and distressed. Being indifferent toward the externals allows us to stay away from suffering. However, skepticism argues that we cannot only live on indifferences. When we destroy the nerves, the pleasure goes together with it. Life is like a game; there is no pleasure existed if we do not care about it at all. “We lose all the pleasure of the game by our phlegm and carelessness” (Hume, 355). Even so, I think the stoicism did not imply “indifferent” to be uncaring but rather having no intrinsic moral value that is neither good nor bad. The Stoics rely on the preferred indifferent, which is following your preferences in the world of externals. Because human beings naturally have inclinations to some externals, stoicism wants to maintain this choice to be an acceptance that every person is obliged to natural laws. Everyone does have to play the game of the life, what is …show more content…
“Let death and exile and everything that is terrible appear before your eyes every day, especially death; and you will never have anything contemptible in your thoughts or crave anything excessively” (Epictetus, 21). However, Hume opposed that although each person considers death in various ways, death is the same end for the fool and the philosopher. My view is that death is always with us, and the more we anticipate death, the less we will get affected by it. Many ancient philosophers took the dismissive view of death while the common view is fearing death. Thus, it is not same for the fool and philosopher in considering