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Sharon Lebell on Epictetus and Rescuing Philosophy from the Philosophers

The Daily Stoic

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'It's a Horrible Punishment, You'll Hate It'

Standsa first came to read epictetus in the early nineties. He was part of an inevitable chain of books that she had been reading since childhood. She says her two obsessions are a meaningfulness and virtue as is. Standsa: My personal marching orders for myself are to rescue philosophy from the philosophers. And along with that, to rescue notion of virtue from the sanctimonious.

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