The shared center — held across the tradition
Some things are up to us; most are not.
Judgement, impulse, desire and refusal are ours. Body, property, reputation and office are not, and treating them as if they were is the whole of what goes wrong.
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Held by most — broad, but not universal
The cosmos is a single rational animal, and you are a part of it.
Providence is not a plan made for you; it is the fact that the whole is ordered. Living well means agreeing with how it is already going.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Whether you can keep the ethics after dropping the physics.
Modern practitioners mostly take the exercises without the providential cosmos. Traditional Stoics answer that "live according to nature" is empty if nature is not rational, and the argument runs live in the same conference hall.
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