Better To Have Than Not To Have
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
"It’s easy to think—given their spurning of so many of the pleasures that other people chase—that the Stoics didn’t want or like anything. When you see the lengths that Seneca and Marcus go to criticize luxury, you might assume they lived like paupers. Or when you hear about how blasé Epictetus was about his crippled leg, that maybe he had gotten so philosophical that like one of those monks, he had somehow transcended his physical form altogether.
While this might all be inspiring if it were true, the reality is that the Stoics were regular people just like you. They had wants and desires, and they generally didn’t like feeling pain. So what did they mean by all that writing then?"
Find out their meaning in today's Daily Stoic Podcast episode.
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| 0:07.4 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Ciri T and we are the hosts of a Red Handed, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
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