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Agnes Callard on Socrates and Wisdom

The Daily Stoic

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The Stoics, Is There a Philosopher Engaged?

There is a tradition inside the stoics that, like, a philosopher's not someone who talks about philosophy or writes about philosophy. A philosopher, to the stoics, is someone engaged in public life in some form or another. To me, that seems like that's got socrates's finger prints all over it. But how do the stoics reconcile that with te with the idea of the sage who is in some way withdrawn? It's true. And then you kind of look at who their heroes are, and it's like, there there are no sages that the stoics hold up as heroes who were not deeply engaged.

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