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The Best Practical Philosophy Ever with Massimo Pigliucci (Episode 13)
Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied
The Role of Compromise in Life
There's a reading of the late republic where what Cato does is upholds his virtue, but by doing so, pushes all the vicious people into one corner because they can't work with him anymore. Is it something we need to start thinking about in our personal lives as well? A Pictetus says that we have different roles in life. The most important one that we all share in common is role as a human being,. And then there are roles that fate gave us, right? So you're somebody's son. That's not something you chose. There's a third group of roles; those are the ones that we choose given our circumstances.
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