PEL Presents PvI#52: Elegant Stoicism w/ Tanner Campbell
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Tanner runs the popular daily podcast Practical Stoicism, so of course we brought him on to talk about on-board flight services and attitudes among retail service workers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Philosophy versus improv where two stages try to teach each other a thing or two |
| 0:09.7 | and maybe you the audience gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:12.8 | My name is Bill Arnett, an improv, Merlin, currently a philosophy nude. |
| 0:17.8 | This is Mark Linton-Meyer, a philosophy. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm going to say a surgalahad. |
| 0:21.8 | I don't think I go up to the Merlin level, but I try really hard, interesting becoming |
| 0:26.4 | what Sir Robin in the Holy Grail movie level in improvisation. |
| 0:30.7 | My name is Tanner Campbell. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm the host of the Practical Stoicism Podcast and I am a non-academic American philosopher |
| 0:38.1 | of stoicism. |
| 0:39.1 | We've had a lot of talk on here about stoicism. |
| 0:41.8 | Have Billis, would you describe yourself as stoic curious? |
| 0:45.6 | Yes, I think so. |
| 0:47.2 | Again, I tease Mark sometimes about wisdom from the ancients. |
| 0:51.6 | And any topic we have, we talk about what would the ancients say. |
| 0:54.9 | Can I believe stoicism counts as an ancient wisdom? |
| 0:58.7 | W-W-T-A-S? |
| 0:59.9 | Yes. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah, if you're general, then you could probably come up with, okay, what would diogenes |
| 1:06.0 | the cynic do? |
| 1:07.0 | You could come up with an ancient probably to fit whatever it is you were willing to do |
| 1:10.5 | anyway. |
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