{"id":60615,"date":"2025-11-02T23:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenschoolsgreenfuture.org\/?p=60615"},"modified":"2025-11-03T01:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T01:51:11","slug":"7-strategies-great-philosophers-better-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenschoolsgreenfuture.org\/fr\/7-strategies-great-philosophers-better-life\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Powerful Strategies From The Great Philosophers For A Better Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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*originally published on The Epoch Times*<\/em><\/p>

Link to the original article.<\/a><\/p>

Commentary<\/p>

Fifteen years ago, I lost a job. The timing was bad. My wife and I had just purchased our first home, and we were expecting our first child. As editor of a small publication, I had refused to spike a story we were set to publish (it involved questionable political dealings of a prominent politician). Spiking the story would have been easy, but I couldn\u2019t bring myself to do it. It felt wrong. So I prepared a resignation letter, hoping it wouldn\u2019t come to that. (It did.)<\/p>

Losing one\u2019s job is rarely a satisfying occasion. But for me, it was. For one, the move turned out to be very good for me professionally. More importantly, I had stood for something. This made me proud\u2014after the sting wore off.<\/p>

1. Do the Right Thing<\/b><\/h2>

Though I didn\u2019t realize it at the time, the episode was pivotal in my character development. The great Roman thinker Cicero believed that doing the right thing in the face of consequences is an essential part of virtue.<\/p>

\u201cHe who sacrifices his duty to expediency is like one who cuts down the ship\u2019s mast to escape a storm,\u201d Cicero (106\u201343 B.C.) wrote in \u201cOn Duties.\u201d \u201cHe is saved for the moment, but shipwrecked forever.\u201d<\/p>

The moral is simple: On important things, stand firm on principle, even if it costs you.<\/p>

Here are six more strategies from great philosophers that can help you build a better life.<\/p>

2. Rule Your Inner Life, Not Other People<\/b><\/h2>

Plato (428\u2013347 B.C.) once said that the \u201cfirst and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.\u201d The Greek philosopher said it was the most \u201cshameful and vile\u201d of things to allow your inner desires to rule you.<\/p>

Epictetus, writing 500 years later, urged people to focus energy inward. He believed happiness comes from moderating desires and choosing pleasures that are not enslaving. He wisely saw this as a path to freedom, both inward and outward. After all, a person who commands himself cannot be easily commanded by others.<\/p>

Many people today focus their energy on trying to fix the world while neglecting their own inner life. This is folly. Conquer yourself first. Just remember, it\u2019s not as easy as it sounds.<\/p>

C.S. Lewis wrote in \u201cMere Christianity\u201d: \u201cNo man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.\u201d<\/p>

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A woman meditates in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Nov. 7, 2023. Oleksii Pidsosonnyi\/The Epoch Times

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3. Value Work and Take Pleasure In It<\/b><\/h2>

Many postmodern thinkers see work as degrading, coercive, and alienating.<\/p>

That\u2019s not just a bleak view of work\u2014it\u2019s a false one. Many of us have experienced not just the material fruits of work (a paycheck) but the less tangible fulfillment it offers. As a young man, I worked as a waiter, a roofer, and a garbage collector\u2014jobs some call demeaning or \u201cexploitative.\u201d I don\u2019t want to romanticize those jobs\u2014they were hard\u2014but I gained more than money from each of them. Work, with the proper mindset, is one of the surest paths to self-improvement. It is also part of human nature, when done freely.<\/p>

\u201cIt is the natural desire of every man to better his condition when he is secure of enjoying the fruits of his own labour,\u201d philosopher Adam Smith observed in \u201cThe Wealth of Nations.\u201d<\/p>

Smith saw the dignity and independence that work offers. Creating value builds both character and community, and it is one of the truest expressions of human liberty.<\/p>

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A waiter works at a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico, on July 5, 2024. Guillermo Arias\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>

4. Pursue Your Own Happiness<\/b><\/h2>

Oscar Wilde once observed, \u201cUnselfishness is letting other people\u2019s lives alone, not interfering with them.\u201d<\/p>

The quote puts the individual in his proper place and reminds us of something important: You are the one in charge of your life. Not the tribe. Not the state. In a free society, individuals decide what they want and value. This is not \u201cselfishness.\u201d It\u2019s a social good. The philosopher John Stuart Mill observed that society flourishes when people are free to choose their own actions and pursue their own dreams.<\/p>

\u201cIn proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others,\u201d Mill wrote in \u201cOn Liberty.\u201d<\/p>

Choosing one\u2019s own path\u2014\u201cthe pursuit of happiness,\u201d in Thomas Jefferson\u2019s immortal words\u2014is central to human dignity and flourishing. Don\u2019t let anyone choose yours, but choose wisely and accept the responsibility that comes with that freedom.<\/p>

5. Cultivate Virtue as a Habit (Especially Humility)<\/b><\/h2>

Aristotle believed that virtue was not something rulers could impose. In fact, virtue requires choice. He also said virtue is demonstrated and developed by our actions.<\/p>

\u201cWe become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts,\u201d the philosopher wrote in \u201cNicomachean Ethics.\u201d<\/p>

There\u2019s a lot of confusion over virtue today. Many would have you think that your beliefs make you a virtuous person. Nonsense. Virtue is attained. We become virtuous not through belief but through practice. So dedicate yourself to the four cardinal virtues\u2014prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance\u2014and don\u2019t forget to include humility, which Saint Augustine called \u201cthe foundation of all the other virtues.\u201d<\/p>

6. Face Death to Live Fully<\/b><\/h2>

The Roman philosopher Seneca (4 B.C.\u2013A.D. 65) once said that the tragedy of life isn\u2019t that it\u2019s short, \u201cbut that we waste much of it. \u2026 So we must prepare for death every day.\u201d<\/p>

The words might sound macabre, but this is good advice. It\u2019s easy to forget, but death is part of life. We don\u2019t just lose loved ones along our way; we, too, will depart this earth. Writing in the journal First Things, filmmaker Caylan Ford said facing this reality comes with benefits.<\/p>

\u201cAwareness of death humbles us in our vanity, our hubris, and our contempt for others, and it dispels any illusions that we are in control of our fates,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>

Like many Greek thinkers, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius believed it was irrational to fear death, which was the most natural of all things. Plato, meanwhile, tells us that Socrates went to his grave cheerfully despite his unjust death sentence.<\/p>

\u201cI think that a man who has truly spent his life in philosophy is probably right to be of good cheer in the face of death,\u201d Socrates says in Plato\u2019s \u201cPhaedo.\u201d<\/p>

By facing death and accepting mortality, you learn how to live more fully\u2014and more wisely.<\/p>

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7. Wake Up Right<\/b><\/h2>

My pastor says the first thing he does in the morning is get on his knees and pray. It\u2019s a habit I\u2019ve tried to adopt, but with little success. I share the anecdote for a reason: Everyone has heard the idiom about \u201cgetting up on the wrong side of a bed.\u201d It turns out that how (and when) we get out of bed matters.<\/p>

It\u2019s a clich\u00e9, but getting up early is important. There are clear benefits to rising early, including lower risk of depression. But how we get up matters almost as much as when. Marcus Aurelius thought it was so important that he prepared himself daily.<\/p>

\u201cWhen you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can\u2019t tell good from evil,\u201d he wrote in \u201cMeditations.\u201d<\/p>

Humans need sleep, but having the discipline to rise each morning and devote yourself\u2014in mind and spirit\u2014is important. As a father of three, I can attest that being present in the morning with one\u2019s children\u2014making them breakfast, getting them dressed, having them prepared for their day\u2014is essential for a functioning family.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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