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Sharon Lebell on Epictetus and Rescuing Philosophy from the Philosophers

The Daily Stoic

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Are You a Product of Your Experience?

You mention this idea of a sort of epictetus being proachable or more accessible to women. Do you think part of what the universality, or your sensing, do you think it's actually rooted in how he acted? I couldn't conclusively say, because i'm not a historian or a classicist, but i don't think so. And especially because across all the the extant literature from the ancient stoics doesn't talk too much about cooking or cleaning the house and taking care of the babies.

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