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How to Be Good: Seeking Virtue with Massimo Pigliucci

Classical Wisdom Speaks

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Is Cicero a Stoic?

Cicero lived his life pretty much like a stoic. His ethics, especially, were informed by stoicists. He was striving for virtue, but he also was weak in certain aspects. And so that's why I'm much more open to a skeptical informed stoicism than a straightforward version of it.

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