Kermit Roosevelt III on Theodore Roosevelt And Cultural Movements (PT 2)
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🗓️ 13 January 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with American author, lawyer, and legal scholar Kermit Roosevelt III on Honoring and doing what is right, Why peoples values and sense of honor are collapsing, How many people know who Marcus Aurelius is because of Gladiator, and his book The Nation That Never Was.
Kermit is an American author, lawyer, and legal scholar. He is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a great-great-grandson of United States President Theodore Roosevelt and a distant cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt worked as a lawyer with Mayer Brown in Chicago from 2000 to 2002 before joining the Penn Law faculty in 2002. Roosevelt's areas of academic interest include conflicts of law and constitutional law. He has published in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, among others, and his articles have been cited twice by the United States Supreme Court and numerous times by state and lower federal courts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:08.4 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage, |
| 0:15.7 | justice, temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:18.3 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at |
| 0:26.8 | length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenge and issues of our time. |
| 0:35.7 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be |
| 0:41.0 | sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, and most importantly |
| 0:47.3 | to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't know when you'll be listening to this. I'm in a little bit of a limbo myself as I'm recording it. |
| 1:07.1 | I found out my in-laws have COVID last night, so it's still there and out there people, so I hope you're being |
| 1:12.4 | careful as you're traveling for the holidays |
| 1:14.7 | But it's this opportunity to practice a little stoic practice which is you have the exposure |
| 1:20.8 | Our travel plans loom in the future and it's out of my control whether it's going to |
| 1:26.2 | affect things or not whether the virus is in me right now or not. All I can do is one take precautions, not expose other people to it, |
| 1:36.2 | and then not get in my own head about it, not try myself nuts about it, not let it cost me |
| 1:42.3 | anything on top, right, which is can I be productive in this time can I be |
| 1:46.4 | happy in this time right can I just be present in this time and not ruminate or worry or bite my nails over |
| 1:55.8 | something that's not in my control and that's why I am recording this intro right |
| 1:59.2 | now which is part two of the episode I brought you earlier in the week, my interview was |
| 2:03.2 | Kermit Roosevelt the third. He has an awesome book that I will recommend the |
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