Other things (health, education, wealth, etc.) may have value, but do not define who we are as human beings.
* The only true good is virtue, defined as correct judgment, and the only true evil is vice, defined as bad judgment. * We should live according to human nature (i.e., by applying reason to improve society, because we are social animals capable of reason).
The fundamental aspects of it can be summarized rather succinctly: There is very little disagreement among modern Stoics concerning the ethics, which is the crucial, most practical part of the philosophy. Like any philosophy of life (or, for that matter, religion), it has two fundamental components: a metaphysics (i.e., an account of how the world works) and an ethics (i.e., an account of how we should behave in the world). Stoicism is a philosophy of life that has been around for 23 centuries, and in the past several years has seen a resurgence of interest throughout the world.
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