A very good article. Thanks for writing it.
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I posted it on my facebook page. I've thought this way about grief for decades. The Stoics explain why my thoughts were right. Never understood the idea of very limited grieving being in our nature; Stoics did, as you show.
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Getting feedback. The idea of natural limited grief is hard for one person to understand. And Seneca on Imitating is too. I said today he's say it's being misled by exaggerated depictions in media eg.
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1/ Thanks for that piece! In Letter 74 Seneca comments precisely on this feature of Stoicism, but instead of focusing on the training part, he goes a bit further back and makes the point that it's cognitive consistency that guides this attitude, particularly regarding [
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] the evaluation of the moral value of things. I think that's an interesting way of looking at life. Here a snippet of that letter, from Graver & Long:pic.twitter.com/zZglQDPCGQ
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Here’s how to not grieve upon death: Be a Stoic, then meditate to the void where you will realize the true nature of the “self” and the truth behind no birth and no death.
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