Stoic Virtue Of Happiness: Condemning Epicureans

A good number of philosophers stressed that happiness is essential to the human existence, they see the sense of human living in triumph of different contentment. Condemning Epicureans, Stoics proposed another view and their concept included ethical and moral laws that denied the leading role of happiness but established the principle of logic and rational mind in the life attitude. They prove that sufferings and pain can be used for reaching important knowledge and, what is more, are the normal part of our existence. The Stoics look for opportunities of human freedom and the way to be happy regardless of external circumstances.
Stoic virtue includes strength of will, courage, dignity, and maturity. According to stoic doctrine, everything has a price that reason can reveal. the price of happiness is personal detachment from external conditions; peace of mind comes from indifference to everything accepting the will of the logos. stoic taught that only great struggle could produce greatness of character (Soccio Ch7). Stoicism is not about expecting bad things, that is just a technique used by the stoics (and it works), they teach you to be the master of yourself. If you want to be happy be so, but because you decide it. If you want to be sad do so, but because you decide it. You are the one who decides how to react to what happens to
The stoics’ point of view, the achievement of the condition for happiness consists in a rational choice of things, priorities, and values in accordance with the natural requirements. However, the achievement of certain results and realization of desire are not the highest value of human life (Ethics). In other words, understanding and following virtues in one's actions are more important than achieving results, but this did not invalidate the impulse itself and the motive of the person as well as does not give one the right to unsubscribe from higher goals because of certain