Stoicism

“The Highest Good”… in latin it is Summum Bonum. According to Cicero and the Stoics (yes, it does sound like a 60’s or 70’s rock-and-roll band), the answer is virtue. Everything we face in life, they said, was an opportunity to respond with virtue. Even bad situations. If we act virtuously, everything else important would follow: Happiness, success, meaning, reputation, honor, love. “The man who has virtue,” Cicero said, “is in need of nothing whatever for the purpose of living well.”

According to the stoics, there were four virtues:

1. Wisdom

   “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own”
   — Epictetus

2. Courage

   “Don’t you know life is like a military campaign? One must serve on watch, another in reconnaissance, another on the front line… So it is for us—each person’s life is a kind of battle, and a long and varied one too. You must keep watch like a soldier and do everything commanded… You have been stationed in a key post, not some lowly place, and not for a short time but for life.”
   — Epictetus

3. Temperance

   “Do what is essential — what the logos of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better. Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you will have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, Is this necessary?”
   — Marcus Aurelius

4. Justice

   “And a commitment to justice in your own acts. Which means: thought and action resulting in the common good. What you were born to do.”
   — Marcus Aurelius

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