Episode 124: The Stoic Life with Epictetus
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
September 21, 20152h 8mExplicit
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Show Notes
On the Manual of Epictetus, aka The Enchiridion (135 CE). What's a wise strategy for life? Stoicism says that the secret is mastering yourself. Nothing external can break your spirit unless you let it. So, how weird and misguided is that advice? With guest Alex Fossella.
End song: "But I Won't" by Mark Lint from Spanish Armada: Songs of Love and Related Neuroses (1993).
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