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#310 Donald Robertson- Stoicism for The Modern World

What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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The Stoic Exercise - The View From Above

Stoics believe that as to confront the reality of our situation, but in a more detached way. To have imagined the biger pecture is to imagine also the transience of all things. Make the buddist say, the permanence of things, including of our own existence. How do you think through one of the questions yet people push back on? We are so small, we're so insignificant, but at the same time, we're the centre of our own universe.

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