The purpose of Stoicism and Buddhism is to end our rule by emotion: meaning “ani

The purpose of Stoicism and Buddhism is to end our rule by emotion: meaning “animal instinct” so that we might, with effort, become humans. Albeit Stoicism provides an objective and masculine, action oriented solution within reality, and Buddhism provides a subjective and feminine means of disconnecting from reality, both achieve mindfulness by similar means.

So no. We are only ruled by emotion because we fail to CHOOSE NOT to be.

There is a very great difference between a domesticated animal, and a human being. A domesticated animal has been trained to cause little damage despite its impulses. A human no longer is governed by impulses.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine