Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Stoic Philosophy of Nature
Stoics were not canceling going back to nature as in your tree hugging and living in a cave. For the stoics, human nature was the nature of a social animal capable of rationality. To follow nature for a human being means to use reason to help with social life. And it's very distinct from saying that an earthquake is natural and so I have to accept it.
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