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Yet, they are both perfect examples of the system…
Both wrong and both given tools by the same master to accomplish their own ends and means….remember that masters are never far from their subjects and all that is and has happened is internal in origin, not external as so many desire for it to be…
Funny and not Ha Ha funny things are in play, look around, anything you want to even mention and bring up. Agendas are flying full speed and….well, chaos is running amok. Do people really believe the crap that is happening and or is everyone so brain dead that they don’t care?
May 14, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET
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By Nancy Sherman
Dr. Sherman is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and the author of “Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience.”
Modern Stoicism has become an industry. And a mega-industry at that.
For the consumers seeking wisdom on how to live the good life and there are a lot of them there are daily digests of Stoic quotations, books and websites packed with Stoic wisdom to kick-start your day, podcasts, broadcasts, online crash courses and more.
In some ways, Stoicism is well suited to a program of self-improvement. It has always been a sort of athletic training for the soul. Founded in the third century B.C.E. by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Citium and mainly associated today with Roman practitioners like the emperor Marcus Aurelius and the statesman Seneca, Stoicism stresses ethics, virtue and the attainment of that e
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Let me tell you one of my favourite stories… Two and a half thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Socrates remarked that society will never flourish until kings become philosophers, or philosophers become kings. However, there had never actually been a king who was a Socratic-style philosopher. In fact, about five hundred years elapsed before a man appeared on the world-stage whom historians would confidently call a philosopher-king. Or rather, not just a king but an emperor. His name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor of Rome in the late 2nd century AD.