Melding Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) with Stoicism

 The techniques of CBT can be melded with Stoic ethics, but the Stoic trainee must maintain the Stoic value system, and what that entails. Here is a syllogism which uses quotes from Grant C. Sterling's messages to the International Stoic Forum to demonstrate the Stoic value system and what it entails.

"The only things in our control are inner events such as our beliefs, desires, and acts of will."

"Virtue (or virtue and certain things attained only by those with virtue) is the only genuine good, and vice the only genuine evil."

"Ergo, since virtue and vice are types of acts of will, they are in our control."

"Ergo, things not in our control [externals] are never good or evil."

"Emotions arise from false beliefs that externals have value [that is, that they are good or evil]."

"Therefore, no-one should be disressed by any external occurrence."

Definition of a modern Stoic

Core Stoicism