"People ask the gods for health in their prayers, but do not realize that the control of their health lies with them; through lack of self-control they act in opposition to it and so themselves betray their health to their desires."
~ Democritus
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It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.
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Things will inevitably go wrong, people will do wrong, motivated in bad ways. Should you cry over it? Or should you laugh about them? Or is there a better response? Here's a bit about Seneca's advice to us
https://medium.com/practical-rationality/senecas-insights-of-crying-laughing-or-accepting-7a0bdfba00e1
#Seneca #Advice #Stoicism #Heraclitus #Democritus
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
― Democritus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus
“In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the #animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds, — from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.”
“Of practical #wisdom these are the three fruits: to #deliberate well, to #speak to the point, to do what is #right.”
Tijdens het Hellenisme kregen de Academie van Plato en de Peripatetische school van Aristoteles gezelschap van nieuwe filosofische stromingen, zoals het Cynisme. In deze vijfdelige reeks: de hedonisten. Een eeuw na Aristippos, omstreeks 305 voor Christus, kocht de filosoof Epikouros een huis met een grote ommuurde achtertuin in Athene. In die tuin onderwees hij zijn […]
#Democritus (Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning chosen of the people) claimed that everything starts from atoms, in a bottom-up #causation.
#Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos ‘people’ and kratos ‘rule’) can be described as #emergent top-down #control mechanisms based on the free association and decision of autonomous individuals.
All #causation is bottom-up or from the inside-out. There is no such thing as top-down causation imposed from the outside. There is only an emergent (internal) level of constraints and other control mechanisms generated by the interaction of individuals fulfilling a common need or objective.
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