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Matthew B. Crawford on Practical Philosophy and Shop Class as Soulcraft | This is The Opinion To Care About
The Daily Stoic
Having an Impact on People's Lives
I think it was epicurus who said, vain is the word of the philosopher, which does not heal the suffering of man. I think you could have a pretty expanded definition of what what healment or suffering is but i think the idea is that the purpose of the writing should be to have an impact on actual people's lives. And that is easier said than done, yes? There's a kind of therapeutic em impulse, i think, and a lot of stoic thought and a and to some of the other schools or that we're around the same time, t the cynics and e epicureans. It's funny, we're living at a time right now where i think
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