9.14 Ancient wisdom
Even if the analogy is approximate, there are nevertheless consonant features between 4 Perception Spheres and the 4 schools of life in antiquity.
The Epicurean precepts for a happy life are modesty; the company of concrete friends apart from the official world; enjoyment of being alive and avoidance of unnecessary pain and fear.
The skeptic’s advice against illusion and disillusionment is: “be doubtful and don’t become imprisoned by your value judgments!”
Total unconventionality has been the key recommended principle of cynics. They maintained that copying conventional ways and looking for the approbation of others prevented people from seeking and living their (way of) free life.
Stoicism was the most influential school of the Greco-Roman world. Stoics believed that to live a good life one must live in accordance with nature and respond to life situations by practicing the four cardinal virtues: prudence, courage, moderation and justice. Stoics also affirmed that our destiny does not depend on us, and that the only thing we can do is to accept our fate and take it with detachment.
