The Virtue of Being Wrong

How Stoicism Teaches us to Welcome Refutation

Jan 31, 2023

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And what kind of man am I? One of those who would be pleased to be refuted if I say anything untrue, and who would be pleased to refute anyone who says anything untrue; one who, however, wouldn’t be any less pleased to be refuted than to refute. For I count being refuted a greater good, insofar as it is a greater good to be rid of the greatest evil from…

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