Please submit your first reflection piece (min. 500 words) :How stoic are you?The Stoics did hold that emotions like fear or envy (or impassioned sexual attachments or passionate love of anything whatsoever) either were or arose from false judgments and that the sagea person who had attained moral and intellectual perfectionwould not undergo them. The later Stoics of Roman Imperial times Seneca and Epictetus emphasize the doctrines (already central to the early Stoics teachings) that the sage is utterly immune to misfortune and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy What do you have to say about such Stoic view? Can being immune to the emotions passions and physical pleasures make us ultimately happier?
Please submit your first reflection piece (min. 500 words) :How stoic are you?Th
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