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#239 - Massimo Pigliucci - The Stoic Guide To A Happy Life
Modern Wisdom
The Importance of Social Justice in Stoicism
Stoicism is missing an appreciation of what we would today call social justice. The ancient Stoics thought that women have the same mental abilities as men and therefore they actually ought to study philosophy and practice the virtuous life. Seneca in fact, on the one hand says this kind of stuff, very explicitly,. He actually says so explicitly in a letter of consolation that he writes to his friend Marsha who had lost an adult son. Massimo: "The rest of the story should be feminist"
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