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Stacey Abrams on Leveling up and Serving the Common Good

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

What Is Stoicism?

Stoicism is the idea that we don't control what's happened, but how we respond to it. We have this idea that the stoics were apat ic or not involved in politics. And i go, well, marcus aurelius, the career politician, would probably not have that much of cato the senator. George washington, the the founder of a new country, would not have bjected to using an ancient philosophy for political purposes. Because that was the whole purpose of philosophy in the ancient world - creating a better society and system.

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