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    399. What's the difference between useful and useless?

    399. What's the difference between useful and useless?

    FromStoic Meditations

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    399. What's the difference between useful and useless?

    FromStoic Meditations

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    3 minutes
    Released:
    Jul 4, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Epictetus argues that things are useless or useful not in themselves, but as a result of what we do with them. As usual in Stoicism, the answer comes from within, from our own attitudes toward things.

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    Released:
    Jul 4, 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