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Thomas Chatterton Williams on Reading, Practical Philosophy, and Embracing Contradiction | Approach Your Troubles Like Doctor

The Daily Stoic

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Is Socrates Really a Philosopher?

Socrates is like talking to dudes on the street, you know, and asking them questions. How does a man live with dignity? And women live with dignity in situations that are possibly undignifieddand so this is what he thinks of his philosophy. My dad would say, it's not credentials that make you a philosopher. It's a how you're thinking. Its you define yourself as a philosopher, ar your addressing yourself to these questions, and then you are. No one else can certify you. Like real yes, the real shit. That's what i think the the books, at last, they address themselves to the real the books that we're talking about thousands of years

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