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Donald Robertson on Marcus Aurelius and Understanding Stoicism

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Socrates and Epictetus

The difference between a sophist and a stoic is that one's interested in theory, the other its ethics. In plato socrates says you guys sound just like philosophers sometimes. Herodes atticus used to quote epictetus because he thought it made him look intelligent. The Sophists would compete to get the biggest round of applause from their audience. It was all about appearances.

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