Essential Stoic Concepts

To flourish or achieve your natural ends.

The goal in life for Stoics.

It is understood as a life according to nature and consists in the secure possession of virtue.

While Stoic happiness is pleasurable, the Stoics did not define happiness as a subjective feeling, but an objective achievement of your character.

For example, someone deluding themselves may temporarily feel good, but this is not happiness, because they have not achieved true human flourishing.

Greek: Eudaimonia εὐδαιμονία.