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Practical Stoicism

(I Think) Epictetus Was Wrong About Books

Practical Stoicism

Tanner Campbell

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Hello and welcome back to practical stoicism.

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This is me making up for the fact that I didn't record an episode on Friday, and it's a little bit of a rant. I'm kind of mad at Epictetus. I didn't think I would ever be mad at Epictetus, but I'm kind of mad at him. And I wanted to work through why I'm mad. And of course, mad is a little extreme. I'm not shaking my fist at the sky and screaming to myself

1:11.6

in my house or anything, but I find this thing that I'm upset about to be interesting to think

1:16.6

about. So sometime after the founding of Stoicism in 300 BC by Zeno, we get this character named

1:23.4

Aristot. And Aristot is a guy who thinks that the distinction between preferred indifference and

1:31.5

dispreferred indifference is unnecessary. It shouldn't be taught because all indifference are just

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