(독서) Daily Stoic-11월17일 JUDGE NOT, LEST...




"When philosophy is wielded with arrogance and stubbornly, it is the cause for the ruin of many. Let philosophy scrape off your own faults, rather than be a way to rail against the faults of others." -SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 103.4b-5a
(“철학이 오만하고 고집스럽게 휘두르면 많은 사람을 파멸로 이끄는 원인이 됩니다. 철학이 다른 사람의 잘못에 대항하는 수단이 되기보다는 자신의 잘못을 긁어내는 도구가 되게 하라.” -세네카, 도덕서, 103.4b-5a)
Remember, the proper direction of philosophy-of all the things we're doing here-is focused inward. To make ourselves better and to leave other people to that task for themselves and their own journey. Our faults are in our control, and so we turn to philosophy to help scrape them off like barnacles from the hull of a ship. Other people's faults? Not so much. That's for them to do.
Leave other people to their faults. Nothing in Stoic philosophy empowers you to judge them-only to accept them. Especially when we have so many of our own.
우리가 여기서 하고 있는 모든 일의 올바른 철학의 방향은 내면에 초점을 맞추고 있다는 점을 기억하세요. 우리 자신을 더 나은 ...