Stoic Meditations

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Follow Hannibal, not a piece of ox-meat

While Hannibal was in exile at the court of King Prusias he advised the king to go to war, but...

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919. Sometimes coincidences as just that

You say, ‘Jupiter’s statue was being set up at the very time the conspiracy was being exposed.’...

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918. Philosophy vs pseudoscience

"Upon my word you Stoics surrender the very city of philosophy while defending its outworks! For,...

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918. Philosophy vs pseudoscience

Upon my word you Stoics surrender the very city of philosophy while defending its outworks! For,...

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917. The proper place of sarcasm

Don’t you think, rather, that the bull lost his heart when he saw that Caesar, in his purple...

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The proper place of sarcasm

Don’t you think, rather, that the bull lost his heart when he saw that Caesar, in his purple...

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916. How, exactly, do you know that?

How did the soothsayers manage to agree among themselves what part of the entrails was...

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How, exactly, do you know that?

How did the soothsayers manage to agree among themselves what part of the entrails was...

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915. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

You ought to have employed arguments and reason to show that all your propositions were true and...

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

You ought to have employed arguments and reason to show that all your propositions were true and...

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914. Trust science, not mysticism

Science, argues Cicero, makes reliable predictions of events based on the laws of nature. No such...

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Trust science, not mysticism

Science, argues Cicero, makes reliable predictions of events based on the laws of nature. No such...

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913. When the problem is real, you don't go to a soothsayer

Cicero says that nobody actually takes soothsayers seriously, because when we want to actually...

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912. The proper attitude of a Skeptic

Cicero is gearing up to respond to his brother's defense of the Stoic notion of divination. He...

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The proper attitude of a Skeptic

Cicero is gearing up to respond to his brother's defense of the Stoic notion of divination. He...

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911. Why write about philosophy

Cicero explains the main reason he writes philosophy: to be helpful to other people. But we also...

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Why write about philosophy

Cicero explains the main reason he writes philosophy: to be helpful to other people. But we also...

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910. The Stoics and Laplace's demon

Quintus, Cicero's brother, makes one last - and pretty good - argument in favor of divination, an...

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The Stoics and Laplace's demon

Quintus, Cicero's brother, makes one last - and pretty good - argument in favor of divination, an...

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909. The world is regulated by cause and effect

Nothing has happened which was not bound to happen, and, likewise, nothing is going to happen...

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