Post by Padre Romero on Sept 12, 2007 12:02:31 GMT -5
not necessarily, herclitus definitely isn't a stoic.
Stocism doesn't care weather the world never changes, always changes, or creeps along sideways like a horseshoe crab. Stoicism says that whatever the world is, you have no power to change it unless the logos says you can. so the only thing to do is "Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible."
Some of the more mystic-type stoics shared the concept of cyclic time with Heraclitus...they thought the world was like a fire the flickers on and off.
Stocism doesn't care weather the world never changes, always changes, or creeps along sideways like a horseshoe crab. Stoicism says that whatever the world is, you have no power to change it unless the logos says you can. so the only thing to do is "Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible."
Some of the more mystic-type stoics shared the concept of cyclic time with Heraclitus...they thought the world was like a fire the flickers on and off.