Sharon Lebell on Epictetus and Rescuing Philosophy from the Philosophers

The Daily Stoic

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to Sharon Lebell about her translation of Epictetus – The Art Of Living, the im

balance in the Stoic writings concerning gender roles, why we should take philosophy back from the philosophers, and more.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:15.4	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage
0:23.5	Justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend
0:27.5	We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview
0:31.9	Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging
0:41.6	Issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:48.0	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.0	Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I'm gonna take you way back
1:06.7	This is the year
1:09.0	2006 I am a freshman or a sophomore
1:13.4	At UC Riverside in California. I've just been introduced to Stoic philosophy. I hear about Marcus Arrealis
1:22.0	I hear about epictetus. I get the Gregory Hayes translation
1:25.8	Dr. Drew is the one who first turns around in the Stoics. I read Marcus Arrealis. I love it
1:30.9	I go, okay, what translation of epictetus should I read even though I'm probably then pronouncing it epic Tetis or something and I go to
1:38.4	Borders in the Riverside Plaza, which is currently a forever 21, but then it was, it might not even be a forever 21 anymore, but at the time it was a
1:50.9	Borders bookstore my favorite bookstore. I loved it more than Barnes and Noble at the time. I
1:57.0	Walk into the philosophy section. I look for epictetus and I see one called the art of living
2:02.9	That seems way more accessible and more my style than the Incaridian or the discourses. So I get it
2:11.3	It's the art of living the classical manual on virtue, happiness and effectiveness and new
2:18.9	Interpretation by Sharon Lebel. I buy it and read it
2:22.9	It was very accessible almost too accessible
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