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如何成为斯多葛主义者
How to Be a Stoic
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《纽约客》这篇长文介绍了斯多葛哲学的核心理念——区分可控与不可控之事、通过改变判断而非事件本身来获得内心平静，并讲述这一古老哲学如何在当代重新流行。文章结合爱比克泰德、马可·奥勒留等经典文本，探讨斯多葛主义作为现代生活指南的实用价值。
为什么经久不衰：斯多葛主义跨越两千多年仍能帮助人们应对焦虑、愤怒与失控感，这篇多次登上首页的文章是了解其当代复兴的经典入口。
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实践者现身说法：斯多葛主义帮助他控制脾气、改善职业发展
我在生活中接纳了斯多葛哲学的某些方面，尤其是马可·奥勒留的《沉思录》，觉得很有帮助且实用。我脾气不好，近几年脾气甚至影响了职业发展。这些斯多葛著作帮助我在面对特别难缠的人时更好地控制自己。我从不看自助类书籍，也对时髦哲学翻白眼，但斯多葛确实给了我一个框架，帮我克服了一些局限、实现了部分目标。
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I have embraced certain aspects of stoic philosophy in my life. In particular I've found The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius to be helpful and practical. I struggle with my temper and in the last few years my temper has affected my career growth. These stoic works have helped my get a better grip on things when dealing with especially difficult people. I'm not a person who reads self help books nor am I into cheesy or trendy philosophies. I usually roll my eyes at this stuff. But I have found a framework in stoicism that has helped me overcome some of my limitations and helped me achieve some of my goals.
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推荐几本很好的当代斯多葛入门书：1. William Irvine《生命指南：斯多葛快乐的艺术》，由哲学教授所写，清晰易读，适合初次接触，明智地略去了过时的形而上学部分；2. Donald Robertson《斯多葛主义与幸福艺术》，更学术也更像教科书，有自测和练习，适合第二本；3. 爱比克泰德的《手册》在古腾堡计划可免费阅读，很短，很多内容至今仍能打动我们；4. 汤姆·沃尔夫的小说《完美的人》也充满斯多葛主题。我认为斯多葛主义相当智慧，剔除过时迷信后依然有实质内容（亚伯拉罕诸教就做不到这点），对平静与共情很有益，只是有时难以转化为积极行动。
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Here some great contemporary introductions to Stoicism: 1. William B. Irvine, "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy", https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/0195374614 This is an introduction to Stoic thought as it applies today by a professor in philosophy, very clearly written. Great for first exposure. It (sensibly) skips some of the more arcane stuff, such as Stoic metaphysics (historically relevant, but really obsolete). 2. Donald Robertson, "Stoicism and the Art of Happiness", https://www.amazon.com/Stoicism-Art-Happiness-Teach-Yourself/dp/1444187104/ This is a touch more academic and historic on one hand, and very practical and text-book-like on the other hand, in that it has self-assessments, key points, exercises for every section. Excellent second book. The author also has a course, blog and FAQ at http://donaldrobertson.name 3. Epictetus' Enchiridion is available on Project Gutenberg, btw. It's very short, and many things are not really relevant today anymore, yet surprisingly many sections still "speak to us". 4. Note also that Tom Wolfe's huge novel "A Man in Full" is suffused with Stoic themes. I find Stoicism quite wise, and still substantial enough when you subtract all the obsolete superstition (which cannot be said of, for example, Abrahamic religions). Certainly good for tranquility and empathy. Sometimes hard to translate into positive action, though, I find.
引用尼采对斯多葛'顺应自然'口号的经典批判
你们渴望'按照自然生活'？哦，高贵的斯多葛派，多么虚伪的措辞！想象一下自然本身：无限挥霍、无限冷漠，没有目的、没有怜悯也没有正义。生活难道不正是努力变得与自然不同吗？你们嘴上说要从自然中读出法则，实际上想要的恰恰相反——你们是想把自己的道德和理想强加给自然，让一切都按斯多葛的形象塑造！你们长期强迫自己以斯多葛的方式错误地看待自然，以至于再也无法用别的方式看它……
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You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power--how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? To live--is not that just endeavoring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different? And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be? In reality, however, it is quite otherwise with you: while you pretend to read with rapture the canon of your law in Nature, you want something quite the contrary, you extraordinary stage-players and self-deluders! In your pride you wish to dictate your morals and ideals to Nature, to Nature herself, and to incorporate them therein; you insist that it shall be Nature "according to the Stoa," and would like everything to be made after your own image, as a vast, eternal glorification and generalism of Stoicism! With all your love for truth, you have forced yourselves so long, so persistently, and with such hypnotic rigidity to see Nature FALSELY, that is to say, Stoically, that you are no longer able to see it otherwise-- and to crown all, some unfathomable superciliousness gives you the Bedlamite hope that BECAUSE you are able to tyrannize over yourselves--Stoicism is self-tyranny--Nature will also allow herself to be tyrannized over: is not the Stoic a PART of Nature? . . . But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima. -Nietzsche
斯多葛的'判断而非事件'原则对当今政治焦虑尤其适用
我认为在当今政治环境下，斯多葛主义越来越有价值。紧跟国家政治的人常常表现出报复性和毒性，总想通过宣泄负面情绪来缓解挫败感。正如文中引用的：'扰乱人心的不是事件本身，而是人们对事件的判断。'让那些远超你控制的事情影响你的日常情绪，既累人又痛苦。
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I think being stoic is becoming increasingly valuable regarding today's politics. Vindictiveness and toxicity is reflected regularly in people that closely follow national politics, usually demonstrated by their desire to relieve their frustrations by venting their negative emotions. Like the author quotes, "it is not events that disturb people, it is their judgments concerning them." Letting things which are so far removed from your control affect your daily disposition seems exhausting and miserable.
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