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The Philosophers: Stoic revival

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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What Makes Stoicism So Uniquely Practical?

Stoicism is not uninterested in truth, it's just more concerned with how to live in the world. The first book of meditations is really marcus relius thanking and acknowledging his debts of gratitude to all his mentors. How do you deal with a world filled with difficult people? And how do you stay true to what you believe when people can feel like obstructions or disincentives to what you should be doing? So i just love that,. again, the stoics were not just practical and like, how do we get stuff done? But they're like,How do you go through the world and not be bitter and angry?"

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