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#126 Nancy Sherman: Soldiers and Stoics

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Virtue and Goodness

The ancient greeks and romans really thought of virtue. That's ta roman a latin word, virtuse as excellence. And another word for it is a excellence of your character, is really goodness of your character. The stoics define goods as very narrow and they're going to be just the state of your character,. which essentially is your virtuous or excellent character. Those other things that are colloquially called goods, also called goods, i'm geing to give them a different word. I'll call them indi rence.

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