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Andrew Sullivan on The Classics, Independence, and the Human Experience

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Test of Time, That's All.

We read augustine to day, and it is simply shocking how contemporary he feels. I remember reading, ah, ah, livy. Ah No, onder with i no, it's not god, why? My banking ons, pliny, pliny the younger. He has a little thing about watching dolphins. The other thing is there, you know, some of the stuff like the nicopean ethics, the aristotle's iomician ethics,. When you first read it, it kind of feels benal. There are so many things that or missing because of this fundamental lack of civilizationr knowledge.

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