Simplicity and independence from luxury

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• Henry David Thoreau · Walden, Economy

  “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

  QuoteSimplicity and independence from luxuryPostponing life and wasted years

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  Lenses

  • Present moment and use of time

• Diogenes of Sinope · Lives of the Eminent Philosophers VI.37

  Diogenes throwing away his wooden cup

  Diogenes the Cynic, on seeing a child drink water from his hollowed hands, threw away his own wooden cup, demonstrating that practising what you preach means stripping away even small superfluities in action.

  ParableSimplicity and independence from luxuryCharacter and moral integrity

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  Lenses

  • Voluntary simplicity
  • Exemplar council

  Modules

  • The Ruling Faculty Council of Exemplars

• Seneca · Consolation to Helvia XI

  “Even a place of exile suffices to provide one with necessaries; whole kingdoms do not suffice to provide one with superfluities.”

  QuoteSimplicity and independence from luxuryExile and loss of home

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  Topics

  • Status anxiety and wealth comparison

  Lenses

  • Voluntary simplicity

• Diogenes Laertius (account of Zeno of Citium) · Lives of Eminent Philosophers VII.1

  Zeno chose teaching over court favour

  Zeno taught in Athens’ Painted Porch. He declined King Antigonus’ invitations to court and sent associates in his place.

  ExemplarSimplicity and independence from luxuryCharacter and moral integrity

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  Topics

  • Fear of others' opinions

  Lenses

  • Virtue as the only good
  • Exemplar council
  • Voluntary simplicity

  Modules

  • Testing Impressions and Withholding Assent