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Stoicism Notes by Eloy Paredes Jr (Modern Stoics (Matt Van Natta…

- - - - Seneca
        
        127 Moral Letters to Lucilius
        
        Essays and Discourses
        
        Pre meditations
      - Epictetus
        
        The Enchiridion (Handbook) by Arrian
      - Marcus Aurelius
        
        Meditations
    - - Musunius Rufus
- - - - Wisdom: to know what is good and bad. It is to have the right set of values.
        
        Courage: to control our fears
        
        Justice: To apply wisdom to others
        
        Moderation: to control our desires
        
        William Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life:
        "As a result of luxurious living, people become hard to please. They have lost their ability to enjoy simple easily obtainable things."
        "This is called hedonistic adaptation."
        "Musonius, advises to choose foods not for pleasure but for nourishment, not to please the palate but to strengthen his body."
        "Socrates said: rather than live to eat, we should eat to live."
        "We can use our reasoning to conclude that many of the things that our evolutionary programming encourages to seek, such as social status and more of anything we already have, may be valuable if our goal is simply to survive and reproduce, but are not valuable if our goal is tranquility."
        
        William Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life:
        "People are unhappy because they are confused about what is valuable. They spend their days pursuing things that instead of making them happy, make them anxious and miserable."
- - - - At spare moments of the day, contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life.
    - - Accept and embrace the past and the present. It is pointless to wish they could be different. Amor Fati
    - - Self-deprecating humor is the best response
    - - Read Seneca Essay On Anger.
        Laughter is the proper response to the things that drive us to tears.
    - - Seneca advises us to periodically live as if we were poor. Musonius advices us to do things that cause ourselves discomfort.
- - - - We cannot control
        
        Everything out of own action
        
        Our reputation
        
        William Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life:
        "The price of fame exceeds very much it's benefits."
        "Stoics value their freedom therefore are reluctant to do anything that will give others power."
        "Do not seek social status since it makes it our goal to please others."
        "Be indifferent to what others think of us."
        "When someone praises us, the proper response is to laugh at them."
        "Instead of thinking about future fame, Marcus says, we would do well to concern ourselves with our present situation; we should, he advises, 'make the best of today'."
        
        Our riches
        
        William Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life:
        "Epictetus, says it is better to die of hunger without distress and fear than to live upset in the midst of plenty. He argues that not need wealth is more valuable than wealth itself is."
        
        The body
      - We can control
        
        Fears
        
        Desires
        
        Movements
        
        Our opinions of things
    - - Preferred indifferents: Things that not needed but are not bad either
      - Things that are not needed to have a good life:
        Good health, not being poor, social prestige. These are external to the soul and not having them make life bad