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originally posted by: machineintelligence
I did not find a thread on this subject so I thought I would start one.
originally posted by: eitea
a reply to: underwerks
I would argue against that quote, that the happiness of the wise grows out of knowledge and experience, and the happiness of the free grows up their own free acts. Just I haven't seen that the wise and the free are always the same. You can be a rebel concentranting on your own will or you can be wise, by understanding the will of everyone else.
Marcus Aurelius is certainly a great thinker in history whose philosophy deserves attention!
originally posted by: machineintelligence
a reply to: eitea
When the bullets were flying all my battle buddies were stoics. We lived to see another day as a result so it remains my core phylosophy today after about 3 decades.