Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

On today's episode I have back on the show a Massimo Piliucci from our episode a year

or two back on Stoicism which was very well received by our audience.

We have him back on to talk about his newest book The Quest for Character.

A book really centered on virtue ethics and Stoicism and it's a wonderful text.

It centered around the initially the relationship between Socrates and Elsie Biodes and it

expands outward from there and covers a lot of really fascinating terrain.

But specifically and the thing that I've always loved about Stoicism and tried to push on

RevLeft is this idea that we all have a responsibility to cultivate within ourselves better

characters to be honest with ourselves about our own personal moral and ethical fannings

and work on that front just as we work and in tandem with our work on the collective

and political struggles that all of us are engaged in and care about because I think

these two things are dialectically connected.

The sort of character that we develop within ourselves goes on to inform the form and

content of our political struggle and vice versa I would argue.

And so we really cannot dismiss either side of this coin and I'm always here to try to

remind people of that other side of the coin because we all understand the importance

of political struggle of class struggle of resistance.

But sometimes I think the work that we should do on ourselves the responsibility to others

we have to work on ourselves can sometimes get overlooked and I couldn't ask for a better

guess to discuss this stuff with.

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