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Emily Wilson Doesn’t Understand Stoicism or Epictetus
Emily Wilson was the first woman to translate the entirety of Homer’s Odyssey into English.
Emily Wilson, translator of the Odyssey, wrote an essay on the Stoic Epictetus for the London Review of Books. More specifically, it is a book revi...
Epictetus and His Critics (Episode 234)
Emily Wilson translated The Odyssey. She also reviewed a new translation of Epictetus, and she wasn’t impressed.
Michael thinks she got him wrong. Not because she doesn’t know the ancient world. She does. Because her criticisms rest on mis...
There is no ‘Trichotomy’ of Control in Stoicism
Epictetus pondering what is really up to him.
Epictetus’ Handbook famously opens with what is called today the dichotomy of control.
“Some things are up to us and others are not. Up to us are opinion, impulse, desire, aversion, and, in...
Can Cynicism set you free?
Today’s letter is from our new course on the philosophy of Cynicism in Stoa.
We can learn a lot about ourselves by how we respond to the praise of others. Are you indifferent to it? Does it fill you with pride? Or does the positive...
Stoic Psychology: Are We Born Blank Slates? (Episode 233)
Are we blank slates? Or does the mind come pre-furnished?
The Stoics said blank. Aetius describes a newborn soul as a sheet of paper waiting to be written on. Every idea you have got there through experience. Plato said the opposite. Your...
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