Stoic Minimalism: ‘Just Enough Stoicism’ for Modern Practitioners

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Symposion Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.5840/symposion2022912

C. Chakrapani

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Abstract

Stoic Minimalism may be described as ‘just enough Stoicism.’ Just enough for what? Just enough to lead the good life. Just enough to cope with the stress of modern life. Just enough to not be rattled by the constant changes that characterize the times we live in. Just enough to be resilient in the face of misfortune. Just enough to have the freedom to reject unproven or unprovable concepts. In essence, Stoic Minimalism is an attempt to retain whatever is valuable in ancient Stoicism and the freedom to discard whatever is unproven, unhelpful, or incompatible with our everyday lives. For the Stoic Minimalist, Stoic ethics is a logically self-contained system in which rationality is the principle, wisdom is the means, and happiness is the end. The purpose of this paper is to expand on this theme.

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斯多葛极简主义:现代实践者的“足够斯多葛主义”

斯多葛极简主义可以被描述为“足够的斯多葛主义”。“只够做什么?”足够让你过上好日子。刚好可以应付现代生活的压力。只要不被我们所处时代的不断变化所困扰就行了。刚好能在不幸面前恢复过来。只要有足够的自由来拒绝未经证明或无法证明的概念。从本质上讲，斯多葛极简主义试图保留古代斯多葛主义中有价值的东西，并自由地抛弃任何未经证实的、无益的或与我们日常生活不相容的东西。对于斯多葛派极简主义者来说，斯多葛派伦理学是一个逻辑上自足的体系，其中理性是原则，智慧是手段，幸福是目的。本文的目的是对这一主题进行扩展。

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Symposion Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

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6 weeks

期刊介绍： Symposion was published for the first time in 2003, as Symposion – Revistă de științe socio-umane (Symposion – A Journal of Humanities), with the purpose of providing a supportive space for academic communication, dialogue, and debate, both intra and interdisciplinary, for philosophical humanities and social and political sciences. Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences shares essentially the same purpose. Its main aim is to promote and provide open access to peer-reviewed, high quality contributions (articles, discussion notes, review essays or book reviews) in philosophy, other humanities, and social and political sciences connected with philosophy.