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The Importance of Agency in Stoicism
I think in the ancient world is so much clearer like okay. This person was a stuck this person wasn't You know I'm reluctant to be like oh this person is a stuck today because I feel like it gets Then like when we look at the agents were we're not that interested in sort of like what was their political affiliation? Or you know, we're just able to look at them as sort of this like example. James Mattis would carry Marcus Aurelius with him on his deployments and sort of tried to put stoicism into practice been a really sort of interesting guy. Obviously James Stockdale is probably the most powerful and Clear example. Nelson Mandela Yeah, sure Victor Frankel.