Episode 132: Living Stoically with Seneca and Massimo
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2016
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
On selected "moral epistles" (from around 65 CE) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca: 4. On the Terrors of Death, 12. On Old Age, 49. On the Shortness of Life, 59. On Pleasure and Joy, 62. On Good Company, 92. On the Happy Life, 96. On Facing Hardship, and 116. On Self Control. We're joined by Massimo Pigliucci of the How to Be a Stoic blog, who for a long time was on the Rationally Speaking podcast. How can one most profitably interpret weird-sounding Stoic recommendations about the emotions and about following nature?
End song: "I Lose Control" by The MayTricks from So Chewy! (1993).
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| 0:34.1 | a philosophy podcast by some guys who had one point set on doing philosophy |
| 0:37.5 | for living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:39.4 | Our question for episode 132 is something like, |
| 0:42.2 | what is it to live stoically? |
| 0:44.2 | And we read several of the moral epistles of Lucius Nes Senica, |
| 0:48.1 | a.k.a Senica the Younger from around 65 AD. |
| 0:51.6 | You can join the discussion, get the text, and lots more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:56.1 | This is Mark Linton-Meyer speaking to you from Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:59.1 | This is Wes Haulman in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1:01.9 | This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin. |
| 1:04.5 | And I am Massimo Pileucci from New York City. |
| 1:07.3 | Massimo, welcome. |
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