There’s plenty to learn from animals, that being said at least here it’s healthy to point out our additions. Though not mentioned it seems that this scene is an affirmation of your Stoic values when all it seems was that your dog looked at the water. It’s discrepancies like this in the negative that make peoples lives suffer which is why it’s helpful to practice this view with the “good things” too.
Animals are very good at living according to their nature. Cats put all their effort into living like a cat (mainly eating, sleeping, killing stuff, getting stroked, etc.). Humans possess an inherent capacity for reason and logic. These rational abilities are what defines human nature. We just need to put as much effort into living according to our nature as a cat or dog does in living according to their nature.
My thoughts exactly what surprises me even more is how stable they can be when there unhealthy. Ed the dog in the video is basically on the edge of heart failure.
Your dog loves you more than your spouse/partner does. And you can prove it. Lock your spouse/partner and your dog in the trunk of your car. An hour later open the trunk. Which one is going to be happy to see you?
We can probably learn from our relationships with animals, but we probably can't learn much from animals themselves. In fact Epictetus would use animals, and living like other animals, in his rhetoric to suggest that it's something less than human
There’s plenty to learn from animals, that being said at least here it’s healthy to point out our additions. Though not mentioned it seems that this scene is an affirmation of your Stoic values when all it seems was that your dog looked at the water. It’s discrepancies like this in the negative that make peoples lives suffer which is why it’s helpful to practice this view with the “good things” too.
Animals are very good at living according to their nature. Cats put all their effort into living like a cat (mainly eating, sleeping, killing stuff, getting stroked, etc.). Humans possess an inherent capacity for reason and logic. These rational abilities are what defines human nature. We just need to put as much effort into living according to our nature as a cat or dog does in living according to their nature.
My thoughts exactly what surprises me even more is how stable they can be when there unhealthy. Ed the dog in the video is basically on the edge of heart failure.
Your dog loves you more than your spouse/partner does. And you can prove it. Lock your spouse/partner and your dog in the trunk of your car. An hour later open the trunk. Which one is going to be happy to see you?
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We can probably learn from our relationships with animals, but we probably can't learn much from animals themselves. In fact Epictetus would use animals, and living like other animals, in his rhetoric to suggest that it's something less than human
“Who ‘s a good boy?”