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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: Insights with Donald Robertson
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
The Stoics really just saw themselves to a large extent as the successors of Socrates so a lot of what they're saying is heavily indebted to Socrates. They think much human misery is caused by assigning too much value good or bad to things that are not under other rate control and we are plagued for some reason by this tendency to get confused about the boundaries of our free will and action. We fail to distinguish between the actions that we undertake and the consequences or outcomes of those actions in many cases, he says.
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