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The Daily Stoic
This book, published in 46 BC, explores six Stoic paradoxes, prompting reflection and discussion on virtue, happiness, and the nature of good and evil. It was presented in a more rhetorical than philosophical manner.
Number one that virtue is the only good, two that it is sufficient for happiness, three that all virtues and vices are equal, four that all fools are mad, five that only the sage is truly free and six...
— Episode: Cicero on The Paradox of Virtue
Episode: Cicero on The Paradox of Virtue
This book, published in 46 BC, explores six Stoic paradoxes, prompting reflection and discussion on virtue, happiness, and the nature of good and evil. It was presented in a more rhetorical than philosophical manner.
Number one that virtue is the only good, two that it is sufficient for happiness, three that all virtues and vices are equal, four that all fools are mad, five that only the sage is truly free and six that the wise person alone is rich.
How can virtue be the only good if we also need health and money to live? Is a lie really as bad as killing someone? Plenty of philosophers were visibly poor. How were they rich?