Posted: Feb 12, 2012 9:39 am
logical bob wrote:I suppose that if you wanted a bad point it would be that Stoicism would suggest that people in bad situations should learn to accept their situation rather than change it.
Is that really what the Stoics say? I thought it was something like "change the things you can, accept the things you can't", but maybe I'm confusing them with St Francis. I haven't read any stoics first-hand.