Sympatheia

<ul> <li>Chrysippus The Fighter: Philosophy as “a cultivation of rightness of reason.”</li> <li>Stoicism is “a philosophy of endurance and inner strength- of transcending one’s limits and measuring oneself against a higher internal standard” -Lives of The Stoics, Ryan Holiday</li> <li>"Runners in a race ought to compete and strive to win as hard as they can, but by no means should they trip their competitors or give them a shove. So too in life; it is not wrong to seek after the things useful in life, but to do so whole depriving someone else is not just.” -Chysippus.</li> <li>Part of Chrysippus’s ethical breakdowns was the development of Stoicism’s concept of Sympatheia. This was rooted in Zeno’s belief that we all belong to one common community. </li> <li>“Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe.” -Marcus Aurelius</li> <li>Remember human beings are made for each other.</li> <li>If it’s bad for humanity it’s bad for us.</li> <li>“Be strict with yourself, and patient with others.” -Marcus Aurelius </li> </ul>