"Stoic Paradoxes" Lecture 4: Discussion of Paradoxes 1 and 2
Nov 21, 2015•15 min
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Episode description
This lecture discusses the first two questions in "Stoic Paradoxes", which deal with the following issues:
1. Wealth is an illusion.
2. What is a good?
3. Those who value pleasure too much are deluded.
4. Pleasure distracts the mind from the truth.
5. Virtue is a well of strength.
6. Death and exile are not threats to the wise man.
7. A truly wise man cannot be miserable.
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