Stoic Practice: Beyond the Basics
Move beyond simple resilience and explore the sophisticated psychological and logical framework of the ancient Stoa. Master the nuances of role ethics, the physics of the Logos, and the rigorous discipline of assent.
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22 levels across 4 sections, about 44 minutes end to end, roughly 9 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Refining the Discipline of Action, The Inner Citadel, Cosmopolitanism and Duty, and The Physics of Virtue.
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Key ideas in Stoic Practice: Beyond the Basics
- Internal goals focus on the integrity of the process and exercise of virtue
- External goals depend on the cooperation of others or fortune
- Stoic agency is maximized by detaching self-worth from the external outcome
- Internal vs External Goals
- The reserve clause functions as a mental 'if nothing prevents me' caveat
- Hupexhairesis prevents the shock of frustrated desire when externals interfere
- It allows for full commitment to action without the fragility of attachment
- Hupexhairesis / Reserve Clause
- Moral goods are the only things that contribute to virtue and are entirely up to us
- Preferred indifferents have value (axia) for living naturally but do not affect one's moral character
- The distinction rests on whether the thing can be used for both good and evil
- Indifference refers to the lack of inherent moral value, not a lack of selective value
- Applying the reserve clause to maintain psychological resilience during action
- Stoics follow 'oikeiosis' (natural social and self-preservation instincts) to select indifferents
- The Sage acts with 'eupatheia' (good feelings) rather than 'apatheia' as total numbness
- Distinguishing between preferred indifferents and moral goods in complex scenarios
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Where Stoic Practice: Beyond the Basics takes you
- 1
Refining the Discipline of Action
- The Nuance of Control
- Premeditatio Malorum as Strategy
- 2
The Inner Citadel
- Deconstructing Impressions
- The Logic of the Passions
- 3
Cosmopolitanism and Duty
- Oikeiosis: The Expanding Circles
- Role Ethics and Integrity
- 4
The Physics of Virtue
- The Providential Cosmos
4 sections · 7 units · 22 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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