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What is Wisdom? with J.W. Bertolotti

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast

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How to Teach Philosophy to Kids

Wisdom is many things and I think in the way of my perspective today you know it's probably much more nuanced than it was a few years ago. Sometimes people say to me how should we teach philosophy to kids? One of the best ones to ask is what is wisdom. The Stoics were eclectic the founders of Stoicism studied cynicism, Xenophones dialogues they studied the McGarian School of Philosophy which has kind of disappeared from history. So if there's any truth in stoicism we'd expect other people to arrive at similar conclusions so voila like in the Greek tragedies they have similar ideas as us.

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