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Show Notes
Emotions are judgments in disguise. Can you learn to withhold yours?
Topics discussed:
- The Stoic theory of impressions, assent, and the role of judgment in emotional life
- How pneuma—the cosmic breath—structures the soul, the cosmos, and Stoic psychology
- The importance of prohairesis (moral will) as the seat of freedom and virtue
- Why the Stoics saw emotion as a consequence of belief
- The rigorous practices of attention, self-monitoring, and withholding assent
- How Stoicism offers a radical kind of inner freedom in a world ruled by fate
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