Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Power of Pleasure
In Seneca's Theotokos, pleasure is more intensely in the second to last sentence of the first section. After I've banned desire, I will allow for wanting so that you can experience even your pleasures with greater intensity. So our translation, Wes, this is the end of paragraph one. We're comparing two different translations because so much hinges on exactly what he said and what he meant.
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