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Why Virtue is the ONLY good (Episode 61)

Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied

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The Benefits of Alignment

Stoic teleology is the idea that human beings have some sort of end. And this is where we get grounded in stoic teleology, he says. Epicureans make this move to because they say that human beings are essentially beings who seek pleasure. But ultimately it doesn't really matter in some sense what our descriptive human nature is or whether we have one at all. All that matters is that pleasure is maximized.

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