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37. Robin Waterfield on Epictetus

Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Do You Think Christippus Was a Stoic Theoretician?

In the mornings, Marcus was an orthodox stoic theoretician. But in the afternoons, he's saying, none of this theory is worth a jot unless you put it into practice. And then I have a question or two for you from the audience in fact. Okay. So I can't hear it. Yeah, I just want to talk about the exercises. There are a whole bunch of them. Well, let me think off top of my head with a few of the more interesting ones. Here's another to act always with reservation. What the stoics call reservation or adaptation refers to the fact that all future directed inclinations, even rational ones, should always be accompanied

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