Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life
Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life
Well, I hope you don’t mind me saying this, but you seem to me to just have answered your own…

Well, I hope you don’t mind me saying this, but you seem to me to just have answered your own…

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Jun 19, 2021
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Well, I hope you don’t mind me saying this, but you seem to me to just have answered your own…
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Well, I hope you don’t mind me saying this, but you seem to me to just have answered your own question, insofar as your reply shows you’ve not really understood the concept of “cognitive distancing”, how the Stoics understood it, and why it’s so important in modern psychotherapy. You’ve overlooked points made in the article itself, such as that it’s not…

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