Umutcan Kebçeler
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Felsefe öncelikle sağduyuyu, insancıl davranışı, sosyal birleşmeyi vaat eder. Bu amaçtan bile bile uzaklaşmak, insanları ayırır birbirinden. Hayranlık uyandırmak istediğimiz şeyler, gülünç, nefret verici şeyler olmasın. Bizim amacımız doğaya uygun olarak yaşamak değil midir? Kendi bedenine eziyet etmek, sıradan temizlik araçlarından nefret etmek, pislikten hoşlanmak, sadece kötü yemekleri değil, kokmuş, iğrenç yemekleri de yemek doğaya aykırıdır. Gerçi pek ince zevklere özenmek bir çeşit sefahattir ama herkesin kullandığı, çok pahalıya mal edilmeyen şeylerden kaçmak da deliliktir. Felsefe sade bir hayat sürmemizi ister bizden, kendimize eziyet etmemizi değil!
0-30p: Kontrollü okuyucu 📖
40-70p: Hafif bağımlı 👀
80p+: Geçmiş olsun, kitaplar seni ele geçirmiş 😅
Hiçbir nimet, insanın ruhu onu yitirmeye hazırlıklı değilse sahibine zevk vermez.
Seneca - On Anger
Many people manufacture their grievances by false suspicions or by exaggerating trivialities. Often anger comes over us. More commonly, we resort to it. But it should never be brought on deliberately. If it does fall upon us, it should be cast back. No one ever says to himself: 'What is making me angry is something which I have sometimes done myself or could have done'; no one assesses the motive of the person who did it, only the deed itself. But the motive is what should be considered: was it intentional or an accident, was he forced or misled, was he acting out of hatred or for reward, was he indulging himself or assisting another? The wrongdoer's age and his position are factors which make it humane or prudent to allow and put up with it. We should put ourselves in the place of the man with whom we are angry. As it is, what makes us angry is unwarranted self-esteem. We are unwilling to put up with what we would ourselves like to do.
Seneca - On Anger
'It is impossible for the mind to be rid completely of anger. Human nature will not endure it.' But nothing is so hard or uphill that it cannot be overcome by the human mind and reduced by constant application to easy familiarity. No affections are so fierce and self-willed that they cannot be trained. Anything that the mind commands itself it can do. Some people have managed never to smile; some have kept off wine, others off sex, some off liquid of any kind. Another, making do with little sleep, stretches out his waking hours without any sign of tiredness. People have learned to run along thin, sloping ropes, to carry huge, almost superhuman loads, to plunge to a vast depth and endure the water without any pause for breath. There are a thousand other cases where dogged determination has overcome every obstacle and shown that nothing is difficult if the mind itself has resolved to endure it. In the examples which I have just given, the reward for such determination was nil or trifling. Training oneself to walk on a tight-rope or to put a huge load on one's shoulders, to keep one's eyes from closing in sleep or to reach the bottom of the sea, is hardly a splendid achievement. Yet the task, however slight the remuneration for it, came to completion through sheer effort. Are we, then, not to summon up endurance, seeing what a prize awaits us - the unshaken calm of a happy mind? Think what it means to escape the greatest of evils, anger, and with it frenzy, savagery, cruelty, fury and the other affections that accompany it!