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

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

What’s the opposite of Stoicism, this austere philosophy based on toughness and resilience, virtue and service? Well, in the ancient world, it was Epicureanism–a philosophy that said that pleasure was the highest good. Could there be anything more different than Stoicism?

As it happens, the Epicureans got a bad rap in the ancient world and in today’s.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom
0:07.7	designed to help you in your everyday life.
0:10.4	Well on Thursdays we not only read the daily meditation but we answer some questions from
0:14.3	listeners and fellow Stoics we're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are.
0:20.2	Some of these come from my talks.
0:22.0	Some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with daily Stoic life members or as part
0:28.0	of the challenges.
0:29.8	Some of them are from interactions I have on the street when there happen to be someone
0:33.5	they're recording.
0:34.5	But thank you for listening and we hope this is of use to you.
0:44.0	They are not your rivals.
0:46.7	What's the opposite of Stoicism?
0:49.2	This austere philosophy based on toughness and resilience for you in service.
0:53.8	Well, in the ancient world it was Epicurianism.
0:57.2	A philosophy said that pleasure was the highest good.
1:00.8	Could there be anything more different than Stoicism?
1:03.7	Dio Timus whose story is told in lives of the Stoics despised the Epicurians.
1:10.0	He thought that they were not just soft.
1:11.6	He thought they were perverted gluttons.
1:14.1	He would have been a gas that the fact that Seneca regularly quoted Epicurus in his letters,
1:19.2	even if Seneca stipulated that he was no Epicurian.
1:22.6	It's a Terry in the garden to avoid paying this was the antithesis of what the Stoic was
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