What is Wisdom? with J.W. Bertolotti
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast
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The Origins of the Western Tradition of Non-Attachment
The Stoics would say you know learning to moderate other desires and manage them. The Pythia like the Pythoness was a woman called the high priestess of Apollo who made pronouncements that people would go away in Anteopra. Gennoth Icy outon which means no I say off became a maxim of Socrates in Greek philosophy in general. Medinagan which means nothing over much or nothing in excess now relates to non-attachment. Overconfidence or intellectual conceit leads to catastrophe in life right?
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