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The Daily Stoic
We Have To Care About This
We Have To Care About This

We Have To Care About This

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Ryan Holiday
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Feb 25, 2022
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Welcome to the Daily store podcast. Where each day, we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength insight and wisdom everyday life. Each. One of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy. That is guided some of History's Greatest men and women for more. You can visit us a least out.com we have to care about this
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Fascinating book bury the chains about the abolition movement in London. Adam hauschild writes that the 18th century movement to abolish the slave trade was perhaps the first time in human history that a large group of people got outraged at the other people's rights, most of the political and social movements up, until then is important as they were were inherently self-driven. People. Wanted to make sure they had freedom. They wanted to make sure their voice was heard. They wanted to make sure the government responded to their
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It's but abolition. This was a movement to help in free slaves. Almost entirely driven by people who never were, and never would be slaves. One exception of this fascinating life, is 0.8. When I know who more people should know about. I read his book when I was researching, for the 50th law, but it's important to miss how important this is, especially in an individually focused philosophy, like stoicism Marcus, Aurelius, and Seneca and cater were not evil people, but they were remarkably indifferent to the fate of almost.
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Everyone outside of their class or cased even Epictetus, who was a slave, seem to focus quite a bit on his individual Independence, but says nothing about the injustices of slavery itself. Independence is important protecting. Our rights is important, but we have to remember as Martin Luther King jr. Said that a threat to Justice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere. We have to care about people in different situations than us. People will never meet people with problems totally removed from
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ours.
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Not just because it's in our
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self-interest but because that's what virtue demands. Thanks so much for listening to The Daily Show podcast. Again. If you don't know this, you can get these delivered to you via email every day. So check it out at a least, out.com email.
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