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25. Georges Dreyfus on Buddhism and Stoicism

Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Anger Is a Weapon, You Can Control It

The standard take in the west is the aristotelian, which says, a little bit of anger is ok. And stoics are the only other tradition that i know of, the oung tradition, at least in the west,. That explitlysays, anger is just always a bad idea. The problem is that anger controls us and leads us to a very bad thing, such as hatred and so on. So if we could use it a little bit and control it, that would not be a real problem. But seneca is exactly right. If we, if we get angry, that anger tend to control us because it is so powerful. It's another example of e

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