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Tonight we're going to be talking about Stoicism, and I'm going to try to end with my favorite

Stoic, who's not really a Stoic, Saint Boethius. And it might sound odd to put that title in front of his name, but so he is

addressed officially in the crypt in which he's interred at the chapel of what is he called

St. Peter in the Golden heaven in Pavia, Italy.

It's the church more famous for housing the earthly remains of St. Augustine.

But there is Boethius too, Boeotheus, Severinus, Saint and Martyr.

So I venerate him as such.

I commend you.

I recommend that you do the same.

But the talk itself won't focus on that aspect of Boeotheus so much as his philosophical ethics and the role that stoicism plays in that system,

but also the way in which Boethius at the end of the day is not a stoic.

But that's getting ahead of ourselves a little bit.

So I want to start way, way, way back.

I want us to think about stoicism as a system of ethical thought rooted in historically ancient Greek philosophy. Ancient Greek philosophers, most famous of which of course

are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, theorized about natural philosophy and metaphysics and theology, but also

ethics.

But the way in which they approached ethical topics is I think a little bit different from the

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