Does stoicism really lead to happiness? I feel as if abstention

>>8857622
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom not happiness. Happiness is more closely related to understanding psychology and physiology than philosophy.

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>happiness
what a meme

purpose and social cohesion is far more important and giving than happiness

Aristippus of Cyrene. His hedonism as described by Diogene Laërtius is very inspiring for me. Stoicism is helpful too during hard times. The philosophy of life as a material for art from Proust can get you through really tough times also and is maybe the most inspiring... Very synthetic, sorry, but here are the points.

>>8857622
Like most people you are fundamentally misunderstanding stoicism. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/
Read this artcile and you will know more about stoicism than 99% of the people who read Aurelius or Epictetus.

>What branch of philosophy do you believe best leads to happiness
The problem here is that no definition of happiness of given which needs to be worked out before you can go about doing it. I'm very sympathetic to the later 3/4th century CE lighter stoics. My other great interest would be Aristotelianism, but that should come as no surprise since there isn't a clear distinction between the two philosophies at their respective extreme ends.

>>8857636
this

stoicism leads to stoic happiness.

bitches on my dick/where my money at lies in a different direction

>>8857765
>>8857756
there is no happiness in stoicism. You should not give a fuck about bad things - which could not happen at all. or will be temporary (cause everything terrible is always temporary), not give a fuck about death, because death is inevitable and there is no suffering after death etc etc answer me if i am wrong

>>8857622
>muh FEELS

who cares

t. stoic

>>8858028
stoicism made me autistic

>>8858098

isn't stoicism basically ancient autism?

>>8857657
>The philosophy of life as a material for art from Proust
Sounds interesting, is it from Remembrance books?

>>8858107
kek'd
yes in part. stoicism is nearly impossoble in a world dedicated to pleasure. it's all a balancing game. don't lose yourself in rationalizations, don't lose yourself in decadence

>>8857622
Not happiness, but the understanding that how you feel about a thing can be a choice.

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>>8858489

> just choose to not be unhappy

>>8858494
get out of here you rascal

>>8857622
If you purse for knowledge you are not stoic?