Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Thursday, February 9, 2023

A BigThink article on Stoicism…

sto·i·cism

[ˈstōəˌsizəm]

NOUN

1.    the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint. SIMILAR: patience; forbearance; resignation; lack of protest

2.    an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. The school taught that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge; the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason (also identified with Fate and Providence) that governs nature, and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain.

Article link.

From the article:

"Stoicism developed as a unified philosophy that sought to understand the essence of knowledge and the natural order of the cosmos."

"…focused on self-sufficiency, benevolent calm, and a near-indifference to pain, poverty, and death. This would in turn lead to happiness (in the eudaimonic sense of the word)."

Questions:

  1. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being totally stoic, how stoic are you?
  2. How stoic would you like to be?
  3. What keeps people from being stoic?  What’s the(ir) problem?


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