What To Do After You’ve Done Wrong | Ask DS
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Seneca should have owned up to it. We’ve talked about this. He was 13 years in Nero’s service before he broke with the clearly broken emperor. It is to Seneca’s credit that he walked away. More to his credit still that he was at least partly involved in the Piso Conspiracy to unseat Nero, as we talked about recently (and is also told at length in Lives of the Stoics).
But where in Seneca’s voluminous writings is there anything about taking responsibility for his role in such a corrupt and evil regime?
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| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:17.3 | Well, on Thursdays, we not only read the daily meditation, but we answer some questions from listeners and fellow Stoics. |
| 0:23.3 | We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are. |
| 0:27.6 | Some of these come from my talks. |
| 0:29.4 | Some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with the Daily Stoic Life members or as part of the challenges. |
| 0:36.9 | Some of them are from interactions I have on the street when there happened to be someone there recording. |
| 0:41.9 | But thank you for listening and we hope this is of use to you. |
| 0:52.7 | What to do after you've done wrong? |
| 0:55.8 | Seneca should have owned up to it. |
| 0:57.9 | We've talked about this. |
| 0:59.4 | He was 13 years in neurosurface before he broke with the clearly broken emperor. |
| 1:04.7 | It is to Seneca's credit that he walked away. |
| 1:07.9 | And more to his credit was the fact that he was at least partly involved in the piezo conspiracy to unseat Nero. |
| 1:14.7 | As I talk about at length and lives of the Stoics. |
| 1:18.2 | But where in Seneca's volumous writings is there anything about taking responsibility for his role in such a corrupt and evil regime? |
| 1:27.3 | Sure, Seneca's violent plays do dance around the topic, sort of sub-tweeting his former boss. |
| 1:32.8 | But Seneca could have and should have written more. |
| 1:36.5 | Generations could have learned from his example. |
| 1:39.9 | A worse Stoic in this regard is the infamous Dio-Tymus, also profiled in the lies of the Stoics, |
| 1:45.5 | who caught up in some sort of philosophical feud, |
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