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4. Follow The Three Stoic Disciplines of Desire, Action and Assent | 4. Follow The Three Stoic Disciplines of Desire, Action and Assent | ||
• “The Discipline of Desire” | • “The Discipline of Desire”. | ||
The discipline of desire has to do with acceptance of our fate. Don't waste time on things you can't control or influence. You can do your best to avoid things you don't want, but don’t desire what is out of your control e.g. never to die, never get sick, never get in an accident etc. Once something that's outside of your control happens, you make the best of what you got at hand to deal with it. Prepare yourself for the worst possible outcomes based on the true nature of things and hope for the best. Having an idealized fantasy as the expected outcome (desiring something unnatural) is going to crush you every time. It’s ok to prefer that the thing you desire won't turn bad, but know it is in the realm of possibilities that it will. Play by nature’s rules, and don’t desire the outcome to be anything outside of the realm of possibilities. | |||
Mastering impulse to act and impulse not to act. This is a gentler form of desire and aversion. We are to appeal to different roles we have. These form a hierarchy. | • “The Discipline of Action” | ||
The discipline of action has to do with philanthropy or love of humankind. Mastering impulse to act and impulse not to act. This is a gentler form of desire and aversion. We are to appeal to different roles we have. These form a hierarchy. | |||
1. Universal role as a human being. | 1. Universal role as a human being. | ||
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2. Appealing to our specific relationships with other people. Am I a parent, a partner, a friend? | 2. Appealing to our specific relationships with other people. Am I a parent, a partner, a friend? | ||
An example that Epictetus uses is a | An example that Epictetus uses is a parent who is not able to care for their sick sick. They leave the house and runs away from their child, they can't handle the fact that their child might die. | ||
The idea here is that this is not someone who has mastered desire and aversion. | The idea here is that this is not someone who has mastered desire and aversion. They think death is a bad thing, they're afraid of their child dying, they haven't come to terms with what their ultimate value system should be under the Stoic picture. And because of that, it is interfering with their capacity to fulfill their obligation to other people. They're not able to fulfill their obligation as a parent because they're still afraid. | ||
3. Preference | 3. Preference | ||
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• “The Discipline of Assent” | • “The Discipline of Assent” | ||
Assent means agreement. The discipline of assent involves making correct judgements about the nature of the external world and events that occur in it. | The Discipline of Assent has to do with mindfulness of our judgements. Assent means agreement. The discipline of assent involves making correct judgements about the nature of the external world and events that occur in it. | ||
We assent to value judgements of things that occur around us that were made by us consciously or unconsciously. This can affect how we feel about the event. | |||
Use the process of- Stop it, Strip it and See it. | |||
Step 1: Stop it- Stop the value judgment in its tracks. See that you can stop it before it can affect you. | Step 1: Stop it- Stop the value judgment in its tracks. See that you can stop it before it can affect you. | ||