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Greg Lopez on Stoicism and Buddhism (Episode 56)
Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied
The Stoic Analysis of Human Beings
Stoic analysis dictates that the two core things are rationality. The ancient stoics may say that most animals don't have any rationality. We can update that with modern science to say there's still a big difference between human rationality and a crows rationality. When you give into passions you're literally less human in that moment. And when you try to please your belly as Epictetus may say or when you trying to be lazy you're kind of or passiveYou're being a sheep and sheep aren't good humans they're cheap. So why acting like a sheep act like a human. Those are the three foundations of stoic pro-soke in short I sort I can concede that
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