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Practical Stoicism

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Register for the Justice in the Cosmopolis event on February 12th: https://as.wisdomunlocked.org Today's episode: Meditation #50 from book #4 -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list : https://stoicismpod.com/suggested-reading Read our articles : https://stoicismpod.com/category/articles -- Online copy of Meditations (Long) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-long Online copy of Meditations (Casaubon) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-casaubon Online copy of Seneca's Letters : https://link.stoicismpod.com/letters -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place that still operates like the internet was never invented.
0:10.4	On the new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle for the public airwaves is playing out right now.
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0:33.1	Good morning for Kaptown. Just a reminder that this week's episodes are shorter than usual because we're on vacation. You've heard this message a few times now. We're wrapping up book number four and we will be back to the newly normal weekly calendar of content on February 6th. As a concession to free listeners this week, I have reduced the number of ad spots to just two, one at the beginning, and one at the end. Remember, you can always skip ads, or you can subscribe
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1:15.5	Today we're diving into Meditation 50, which reads as follows.
1:20.5	Unhappy am I because this has happened to me. Not so. But happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue, free from pain,
1:30.9	neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. For such a thing as this might have happened to
1:36.3	every man, but every man would not have continued free from pain on such an occasion. Why then is it,
1:43.3	that is a misfortune, rather than this is a good
1:46.3	fortune? And dost thou in all cases call that a man's misfortune, which is not a deviation from
1:54.0	man's nature? And does a thing seem to thee to be a deviation from man's nature when it is not
2:00.5	contrary to the will of man's nature.
2:04.2	Will then this which has happened prevent thee from being just, magnanimous, temperate, prudent,
2:10.1	secure against inconsiderate opinions and falsehoods? Will it prevent thee from having modesty,
2:16.1	freedom, and everything else, by the presence of which
2:19.5	man's nature obtains all that is its own? Remember also on every occasion which leads thee to
2:25.7	vexation to apply this principle, not that this is a misfortune, but that to bear it nobly
2:32.0	is good fortune.
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