This is in line with my other questions. A Stoic would say that "pain and pleasure befall the good and the bad a like, without making the person better or worse. So those things cannot be in and of themselves good or bad," and that we should therefore, not pursue happiness, but only truth. Also, the truth sometimes leads to pain, but is still worth pursing not matter how much pain can be avoided, by ignoring it. What do you think is the truth all there is, does everything else come in a distant second? Is happiness as important?
2007-03-11
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