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The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

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The Stoic Therapy of the Passions

The first stage of still training would have been the discipline of desire um yeah one with unhealthy passions is that right that's how Epictetus formulate stoicism. The later stages of stoicism are more about learning to act in the service of justice and become more engaged in the world, he says. Zino was a cynic philosopher before he became a stoic so Marcus sounds like he may have dabbled in cynic philosophy before he went on to embrace stoicism.

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