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364. Virtue is all-or-nothing, and yet, we can make progress

364. Virtue is all-or-nothing, and yet, we can make progress

FromStoic Meditations


364. Virtue is all-or-nothing, and yet, we can make progress

FromStoic Meditations

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Length:
3 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Cicero talks about one of the classic Stoic paradoxes: virtue is all-or-nothing, and yet one can make progress toward it. How is this possible? In this episode we explain, by way of a geometrical analogy.

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Released:
May 13, 2019
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