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podcasts. Hey there, Procaptan. Welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, Tanner Campbell,

and today it's Friday. And so we're going to have a bit of a long form episode.

Sometimes these are listener mailbag items.

Somebody asks a question and I answer it in, you know, a long-winded fashion.

Other times it's me deep diving into one particular topic that maybe I've got a wild

hair across my rear about that particular week, but this week,

it's a conversation with my friend William Stevens. If you don't know who William Stevens is,

you should, and you will at the end of this episode, but in particular, at least relevant to a lot of

what we've talked about in this episode, as you'll hear, he's the co-author of a new book on Epictetus and his

Enchoridion. This book is unique in my estimation. I don't think there is another book that focuses

on Epictetus, or specifically the Enchoridion, in this fashion, and to the degree and with the same

approach that William and his co-author, Scott Aiken, do.

William is very immersed in the ethics of stoicism. He takes it to a level of depth that very few do

outside of academia. And by that, I mean he doesn't just understand the ethics of stoicism deeply,

as academics who study stoicism do,

because it's their job and they have to. He also takes action on that knowledge and puts it

into practice. So William Stevens is one of the very few Stoic academics, academics of Stoicism, that that also identify as stoics personally in their lives.

That is, unfortunately, far too uncommon a thing. And it's one of the reasons I'm so grateful to have William

Stevens as a contributing partner in a lot of the content that we create at

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