Saturday, June 22, 2024

Reasoning and Results!

 Reasoning!

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic

Pg.21


Seneca asks us : to use philosophy to guard our living.

Philosophy enables wisdom

And wisdom enables reasoning.

Now the key question is 

Whether living with reason alone is a safe harbour from Fortune or Ill-luck?


Seneca answers this in his letter to Lucillius

“Sometimes a vessel perishes at the Harbour;

Innocent people perish”

Who would deny that? 

But the vessel perishes more frequently in the open sea;

The person who does not act with reason perishes more frequently! “


But still I need to continue working with reasoning; 

By continuing to work on my brain every day


Acting with reason is in my power! 

Fortune decides the outcome!


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