3/1/2023 0 Comments Live and thrive meaningBut his story goes back to his family’s immigration to the United States, from Russia, when Vitaliy was a child. Then, I started finding others that had this same experience. Sure enough, much of my approach to living day-to-day was Stoic. But after hearing it a number of times, I started investigating. Just one of those old schools of philosophy from a bygone age. At that time, I had only a passing concept of that philosophy. I think of this as our “natural philosophy” - how we have made sense of the world.Īfter my first book, many people asked if I was a Stoic. Sometimes, we are already acting in ways that point to our idea of meaning, even without a philosophical basis. How should you act, feel, and think? As different schools of philosophy might point out, that all depends upon your basic ideas of what a meaningful life might be. But that is a rant for another day!)Īnyway, philosophy, as originally taught in ancient days, was exactly for deciding how to live. Lots of talk about what not to do, what God (or gods) might be like, and how to judge how others live… but not so much clarity on living day-to-day. (By they way, I would offer this as an issue with much of theology, too. But how to live, day-to-day? That is often lost to the student. Some classes might teach more on “how to think philosophically,” or “here are the old philosophers.” Some may speak to ethics or arguments, logic or some other esoteric area. Just a little rant here: philosophy classes turn off many college students for a simple reason - they never get around to saying how philosophy can shake your living.
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