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Brittany Polat on Living as a Stoic (Episode 60)

Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied

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The Stoic Position on Character

The Stoics said that there is a causal chain of things that goes all the way back to the beginning of time. The shape of your character is what causes you to actually do something, Christ Sippus compared our character to a cylinder. Even if we did not receive moral advantages, or we don't have moral luck, it's still there is still an element of accountability for ourselves," he says.

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