Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

The “Great Speech” of Protagoras

Excerpt from How to Think Like Socrates

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Towards that for the sake of which each being has been constituted and for which it was made, towards that it strives; now in what it strives towards, there resides its end; and where its end lies, there also lies its specific advantage and good. It follows that the good of a rational being must be fellowship with others; for it has long been proved tha…

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