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What is Wisdom? with J.W. Bertolotti

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast

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The Ancient Sophists That Caused All the Problems

Almost all the depictions of death that we see in movies and read about in books portray death as catastrophic and frightening. We're constantly being trained to be scared of dying like and to view it in a sort of terrifying panicky way um so I think in the ancient world they would say it's politicians and sophists that cause all the problems  that's what the philosophers traditionally say today.

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