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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Memento Mori" data-source="post: 1911" data-attributes="member: 1">Not sure how it can be applied large scale, especially in a society, considering the basis of the philosophy itself is moreso individualistic.Perhaps.. adopting such an attitude would take a heavy mental fortitude, especially in this climate and era. But it’s not impossible, the long line of sages, monks and hermits throughout the ages are a testament to that. From what I understand, the Stoics did emphasise the practice of virtue, so Stoicism may not necessarily be an act of indifference. The Stoics’ had a macro-lens in regards to how they approached their day-to-day, owing to their cosmology which viewed the universe on an infinitesimally large scale, of which our earthly troubles only amount to a thin thread within the cosmic workings of the universe.</blockquote>