#119 Daft Deaths (Part 2)

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re turning to history to find people unfortunate enough to have had a really daft death. We’ve got sixteenth-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, Alexander Pushkin’s totally avoidable end and we’ll hear all about the sad but, in some respects, happy demise of Greek philosopher Chrysippus.

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0:09.0	In the 90s, my friend and fellow journalist Dom Phillips was at the centre of the UK's dance music explosion.
0:17.2	By 2022, he had mysteriously disappeared in one of the remotest parts of the Amazon jungle,
0:23.9	with his friend Bruno Pereira.
0:26.4	In 2025, so many questions remain.
0:31.0	I'm Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent.
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0:39.4	two of Darth deaths.
0:41.2	Let's go on with the show.
1:04.0	So, lovely boys, I am going to talk to you now about the truly unfortunate death of an ancient Greek philosopher called Chrysippus. Now, just a bit of background, Chrysippus, okay, he's born in what is now Turkey in about 279 BC.
1:14.4	As a young man, he moves to Athens, where he studies stoicism with a boxer-turned philosopher
1:20.2	Clianthes, which is much how I view UL as a boxer-turned-philosopher.
1:26.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:27.1	The thoughtful boxer.
1:28.1	Exactly, exactly.
1:29.4	And in time, Chrysippus went on to be considered Clianthe's greatest ever pupil.
1:36.0	So he's a real philosopher of note, this guy, had skills in ethics, logic, physics.
1:42.1	Instead, he wrote, this is amazing.
1:43.6	Look at this for sort of like being this proactive. He wrote 500 lines of prose every day. So every day he would write 500 lines of prose. And the process wrote hundreds of books and essays, including proofs that the wise man will not hold opinions, is of them. Definitions of a morally intermediate, another book.
2:03.6	The Handbook of Arguments and Moods.
2:06.6	It sort of sounds like the sort of thing you get in.
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