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Massimo Pigliucci on Why Virtue Matters

The Daily Stoic

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Seneca and Nero

Nero was already 17 by the time Seneca got to him. Had it been a different person, he might have worked. But if you come in much earlier, at the beginning of what Greco-Romans used to refer to as the age of reason, that's when children start being able to engage in abstract thinking. And then we complain about it. I keep getting distracted. I'm supposed to be studying for midterms, but I'm learning way more interesting stuff listening to podcasts. Have you heard all the good ones on Amazon music? Okay, for example, I now know all about the sex lives of people during the Middle Ages,. Or like how astronauts use the bathroom

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