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The Best Practical Philosophy Ever with Massimo Pigliucci (Episode 13)

Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied

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The Ethics of Tyrannicide

Stoicism is great in terms of personal responsibility and, you know, putting the emphasis on agency of the individual. But when it comes to structural issues, there is a deficiency that we don't find in other Greco-Roman philosophers. For instance, Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero were very clearly interested in politics. So far as we know, the Stoics didn't. The only exception is Zeno's Republic, which is a lost book by the founder of the Stoicism.

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