Life according to nature
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
to live according to nature · convenienter naturae vivere · life according to nature · living according to nature · the things that are according to nature · to live agreeably with nature
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The foundational ethical formula, shared with variant meanings by the old philosophers and the Stoics, defining the highest good as conformity to nature.
For when the earlier men — of whom most plainly Polemo — had said that the highest good is to live according to nature, the Stoics say that three things are signified by these words:
The third, however, is to live enjoying all, or the greatest, of those things which are according to nature.
Therefore this is to live agreeably with nature — to depart from nature.
Meditations
The Stoic ideal of aligning one's actions and will with nature, both one's own and the common nature of the universe.
and I will what is according to the nature of a rational and social being.
I go forward through the things that are according to nature until I fall and have my rest, breathing out my last into that from which I daily draw breath, and falling upon that from which my father gathered the seed, my mother the blood, my nurse the milk;
Judge yourself worthy of every word and deed that is in accordance with nature, and do not let the censure or the talk that follows from certain men distract you;