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    120. Nobody wants to believe falsehoods, and yet...

    120. Nobody wants to believe falsehoods, and yet...

    FromStoic Meditations

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    120. Nobody wants to believe falsehoods, and yet...

    FromStoic Meditations

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    2 minutes
    Released:
    May 28, 2018
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    Podcast episode

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    Epictetus says that people cannot assent to what they think is false. We always want to be right, but we are often not, which is why we rationalize things. That's why we need to improve our ability to arrive at correct judgments about things.

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    Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support
    Released:
    May 28, 2018
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    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://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support