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Episode 201: Marcus Aurelius's Stoicism with Ryan Holiday (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Stoic Position on Life

The Stoic position is life is really hard and there's a lot of suffering and pain in it. The part that you add, the part that you want to avoid is merely the value judgment part of it. To feel jealous involves a cognitive component that your significant other was messing around with someone else,. And so that I think provides some of the answer to figure out where are the emotions in all this? There are judgment components.

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