![]() ![]() Action governs our approach to the things in our control. The third discipline of will is in a sense the counterpart to the second, the discipline of action.In our relationship with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as possible. We were made, Marcus tells us over and over, not for ourselves but for others, and our nature is fundamentally unselfish. This requires not merely passive acquiescence in what happens, but active cooperation with the world, with fate and, above all, with other human beings.Human beings, for Marcus and the Stoics, are social animals.The discipline of action relates to our relationship with other people.Our duty is to exercise stringent control over the faculty of perception, with the aim of protecting our mind from error. ![]() ![]() It is not objects or events but the interpretations we place on them that are the problem.The discipline of perception requires that we maintain absolute objectivity of thought: that we see things dispassionately for what they are. ![]()
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