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Practical Stoicism

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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1:07.3	Welcome back for Kapton. I am glad you're here. Today we have a letter from Seneca, letter 31, as it happens, and I'm going to approach this one a bit differently, because Seneca's letters always deserve a bit of reflection, and up till now, I've been interpreting them for you and providing my own reflection and view of them, and maybe for this one, I want you to reflect on your own.
1:28.3	So today, for this letter, I'd like you to listen to it and then reflect on your own without my
1:33.3	input. Then either share those things with the Discord community, which if you're not part of,
1:38.2	you can go to Stoicismpod.com forward slash Discord, get right in, it's totally free, and drop
1:43.5	your thoughts in the episode follow-up
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