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Modernized Stoicism Critiqued

The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast

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How to Change Your Judgment and Change Your Emotion

Stoics viewed most of our emotions as irrational and to be avoided. But i don't think that is the right way to think about it, he says. Most are irrational because they really constitute a connection to things that in the end don't have genuine goods. And their view is they aren't really. Ah, so in the end, they're just irrational pushes and pulls based on a misassessment of what's truly good, ah, and truly bad, bad.

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