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Terry Freedman's avatar

I also think there is something very reassuring about realising that people many years ago were grappling with many of the issues we do

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Mark R DeLong's avatar

Joel, there's a good article in the current Harpers by Tom Bissell that captures Stoics and their subsequent (mis)interpretations by modern self-help artists. But also a piece that shows the ways that Bissell used Stoicism to work through the death of his father -- in a way that probably old Marcus would feel was true. "Time is a Violent Stream," May 2023.

Thanks for this article.

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