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37. Robin Waterfield on Epictetus

Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Are You a Scholar of Stoicism?

Robin, if I understand correctly, you don't actually identify as a stoic. So what's going on in your mind about stoicism in general like access, what about it? And is there anything, any of the other Greek record Roman philosophies that strikes you as personally at a personal level as more on target,. Rob: If I were younger and in search of my soul as Jung put it, I'd have been very attracted to stoicism as a path to follow. But at this phase of my life, I'm simply not hungry in that way. As Epictetus himself says, a potential follower of stoicism that the starting point is an awareness that something is not right with

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