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How to Be Good: Seeking Virtue with Massimo Pigliucci

Classical Wisdom Speaks

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The Founding Fathers of the United States Are a Good Example

The Founding Fathers of the United States were certainly philosophers in the sense that we're talking about non-academic philosophers. Washington read the Pictetus, and it was famous, it was familiar with Cato the Younger. Thomas Jefferson considered himself an Epicurean; he had a neonated, his personal copy of Epictetus' and Chavidian to the University of Virginia Library.

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