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PHILOSOPHY - The Stoics
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This is a film about stoicism and why
you need more of it in your life.
Because as people seldom tell you, but
we will quietly.
Stoicism was a philosophy that
flourished for 480 years in ancient
Greece and Rome and was popular with
everyone from slaves to the aristocracy
because unlike so much philosophy, it
was helpful. helpful when we panic, want
to give up, despair, and rage at
existence. We still honor this
philosophy whenever we think of someone
as brave and without perhaps quite
knowing why, call them stoic. There are
two great philosophers of Stoicism. The
first is the Roman writer and tutor to
Nero Senica. He lived between AD4 and
AD65. That's right. Tutor to Nero, the
infamous dictator who slept with his own
mother, raped young boys, and just
because he felt like it, asked his old
tutor, Senica, to commit suicide in
front of his own family. And our other
guide to stoicism is the kind and
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