This school's ideal of the perfectly virtuous sage is discussed in the Meditations of a Roman emperor.
A member of this tradition pointed out that athletes don't discuss "whether the ball is good or bad, but only how to strike it and receive it." This school's three disciplines of desire, action, and assent were connected by Pierre Hadot ("ah-DOH") to its division of philosophy into physics, ethics, and logic. A thinker of this school proposed the alternatives of "either Providence or blind atoms," and rejected the latter. A member of this school claimed that the only thing "in our (*) power" is prohairesis, or volition, in a treatise compiled by his student Arrian as the Discourses. This school's ideal of the perfectly virtuous sage is discussed in the Meditations of a Roman emperor. For 10 points, Roman thinkers such as Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius belonged to what school that stressed detachment from worldly fortunes?
A member of this tradition pointed out that athletes don't discuss "whether the ball is good or bad, but only how to strike it and receive it.
Stoicism