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What is Wisdom? with J.W. Bertolotti

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast

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The Problem With Stoicism and Epicureanism

The idea that the goal of life is ataraxia or hedoni like it's pleasure or peace of mind is highly problematic from the point of your modern psychology. The real goal has to be wisdom like arity or moral wisdom basically I would say incidentally there's a reason why Stoicism is popular and has influenced modern psychotherapy and epicureanism has not.

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