Tenth Day of Stoic Christmas

Practical Stoicism

Tanner Campbell

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	Yeah, we're ready.
0:01.8	You just, now everybody knows we were talking about being ready because I hit the record button too early. We're ready for the holidays. Yeah, we're ready for the holidays. It's a day 10 of Stoic Christmas. And first of all, we know the Stoics didn't celebrate Christmas. We've said that once before. Let's just say it again. And then secondly, we know that Mousonius wasn't from Hierapolis, and this is an example of why you don't use AI or don't trust it for important things. So for those of you who are- Our viewers want to know why we have Hyropos up there, and that's because which famous Doic was from Hyropolis? Oh, that's, Epictus is from Turkey, so is he from Hieropolis?
0:40.0	Yes, yes.
0:41.1	Yeah, yeah, okay.
0:41.8	He was a hometown.
0:42.8	That was where he was born.
0:44.4	But then he traveled to Rome, and that's where he met and studied with.
0:49.8	Musoni's Sripus.
0:51.5	His Stoicism Daddy. I think that's how they say it. His mentor. His mentor. Actually, Epictetus, there's some
1:03.8	curiousness about Epictetus for me because, so he's born in Turkey, but it's not Turkey at the time, right?
1:11.0	Turkey doesn't exist as a country way back then.
1:13.0	It's part of Greece.
1:13.8	No, back then.
1:14.7	It called it Asia Minor.
1:16.8	Yeah.
1:17.2	Called it Asia Minor.
1:19.0	So he's from Asia Minor.
1:20.9	He moves to Rome, meets Musonius, becomes the dude in Rome, and then goes to Greece to open up his own school.
1:29.2	Yes, because, but, but, you know, it didn't really, didn't so much choose to go to Rome as having
1:35.0	been born into slavery.
1:37.4	Yeah.
1:37.6	Oh, okay.
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