Occasional reflections on the wisdom of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. Complete index by author and source at https://massimopigliucci.org/stoic-podcast/. (cover art by Marek Škrabák; original music by Ian Jolin-Rasmussen). Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
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535. The true meaning of human freedom
Freedom consists in raising one’s mind superior to injuries and becoming a person whose pleasures come from himself alone.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support534. When it comes to people insulting you, you are in complete control
It is a sort of revenge to spoil a man’s enjoyment of the insult he has offered to us … the success of an insult lies in the sensitiveness and rage of the victim.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support533. The insult conundrum
Do these things befall me deservedly or undeservedly? If deservedly, it is not an insult, but a judicial sentence; if undeservedly, then he who does injustice ought to blush, not I.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support532. The best way to respond to insults
When insulted, Cato did not flare up and revenge the outrage, he did not even pardon it, but ignored it, showing more magnanimity in not acknowledging it than if he had forgiven it.
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The wise man will not admire himself even if many rich men admire him; for he knows that they differ in no respect from beggars — nay, are even more wretched than they; for beggars want but a little, whereas rich men want a great deal.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support530. On the invulnerability of the wise person
Wise persons are without anger, which is caused by the appearance of injury. And they could not be free from anger unless they were also free from injury, which they know cannot be done to them.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support529. Is sagehood possible?
Seneca argues that Cato the Younger was a sage, but a modern biography casts some doubt on that. Do sages ever walk the earth? Who would you put forth as your favorite candidate?
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Bear adversity with calm and prosperity with moderation, neither yielding to the former nor trusting to the latter.
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Fortune can take nothing away save what she gave. Now fortune does not give virtue; therefore she does not take it away.
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Invulnerable is not that which is never struck, but that which is never wounded. In this class I will show you the wise person.
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