How to Do the Right Thing
How to Do the Right Thing — Seneca. Classic “reimagined,” I suppose.
My previous and ongoing adoration of Marcus Aurelius, funny, to me, as that showed up in pop culture, see the movie “The Holdovers,” and I was amused to see a character who bought the books in bulk. The ancient stoics have been updated, and I see a relationship between the philosophical underpinnings in the Stoics and the Buddhists. I’d throw in Shakespeare, too, but that’s just me.
Another writer has done Buddha and the Bard, so I was steering away from the name of the Buddhist thoughts in the philosophies and treaties, but the points can be eerily similar.
In the middle of chapter 4, there it was, in plain English again.
“Anticipate that you must put up with many things: no one is astonished that he is cold in the winter, is he?” Page 139
There’s a familiar refrain from Marcus Aurelius and the stoics, bottom of the post (plane notes).
How to Do the Right Thing
Chapter 4, titled “Do Right by Other.”
The collusion, a fairly direct route, and I wanted to quote the Latin but that gets a bit windy at times. Still, its conclusion?
“The gods are not disdainful or begrudging: they open the door and give a helping hand to those making the ascent.” (Epistle 73.14-15)
Just a reminder. Choices. We always got choices.
How to Do the Right Thing
An exceptional, short treatise on philosophy, and easy-to-understand underpinnings to much of modern thought.
How to Do the Right Thing
How to Do the Right Thing
