Sympatheia
- Author
- Victor Pierantoni
- Published
- Tue 06 Jul 2021
- Episode Link
- https://share.transistor.fm/s/e9ec09be
- Chrysippus The Fighter: Philosophy as “a cultivation of rightness of reason.”
- Stoicism is “a philosophy of endurance and inner strength- of transcending one’s limits and measuring oneself against a higher internal standard” -Lives of The Stoics, Ryan Holiday
- "Runners in a race ought to compete and strive to win as hard as they can, but by no means should they trip their competitors or give them a shove. So too in life; it is not wrong to seek after the things useful in life, but to do so whole depriving someone else is not just.” -Chysippus.
- Part of Chrysippus’s ethical breakdowns was the development of Stoicism’s concept of Sympatheia. This was rooted in Zeno’s belief that we all belong to one common community.
- “Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe.” -Marcus Aurelius
- Remember human beings are made for each other.
- If it’s bad for humanity it’s bad for us.
- “Be strict with yourself, and patient with others.” -Marcus Aurelius
