indifferents.

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It's cool to see this post bc I just used this quote in my recent video. Like u/E-L-Wisty said, I think Marcus is just using ordinary language. We have to remember that this is Marcus' journal. It's n…

That's a huge tangent I call the "problem of other peoples' indifferents." It has bearing on why I would bother practicing restraint in war (after all, death is an indifferent), so I go into it a good…

Stoicism identifies the only true good as internal virtue and the only true evil as personal vice. External conditions such as homelessness or poverty are classified as indifferents. While self suffic…

It's a good question. Epictetus gives the example of his lamp being stolen in discourse 1.18. Your trumpet would be what the stoics called an "indifferent". I find the details of this concept a bit c…