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On the role of intelligence in optionality
Is there any real difference between robustness and antifragility to a completely wise person?
Robustness, adaption and Antifragility
17. Be Antifragile by Expanding Awareness
Stoicism, existentialism, individualism - and RFK Jr
Human beings are born for the sake of human beings
Friends, family and community are not indifferents - Part two
Reason - the imitation of nature
Friends, family and community are not indifferents - Part one
Is a life with preffered indifferents more in accordance with nature than a life without them?
Is the Stoic universe conscious?
We follow where reason, not truth, has taken us - part two
Give up those things that everyone always chases after
Reading ancient philosophy with ChatGPT
We follow where reason, not truth, has taken us
There is nature and there is nature
Can indifferents be life goals?
Culture and nature - a false dichotomy?
A good universe without intentions
Is there reason in nature? If not, what does nature has to do with reason?
A more faithful heir is born than written
Whatever terrifies the general public is less frightful than it is rumored to be
Mighty rivers may easily be leaped at their source
Loving humans, God and the universe
Justice as virtue in relation to another
On the relationship between ethics and politics in Socratic ethics
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended
Some thoughts on "modelling" ourselves and "living according to nature" - part two
Some thoughts on "modelling" ourselves and "living according to nature" - part one
The function of human beings - part two
The function of human beings - part one
Spending time with the divine and ordered - part four
Spending our time with the divine and ordered - part three
Spending our time with the divine and ordered - part two
Spending our time with the divine and ordered - part one
Socrates and the Stoics on Sex - Part Two
Human reason grows rich by self-conquest
Do not despise the lowest steps in the ascent to greatness
Socrates and the Stoics on Sex - Part One
Plato's Ideas on Pleasure: Protarchus
Be at war with men's vices, at peace with themselves
It is an embarrassment to the possessor to have more than he needs
What sort of life will the wise man have if he is left without friends
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty
An end to our gettings is the only end to our losses
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it
He who stops in mid career is not quite lost
Is life most pleasant when passed in ignorance?
Thinking too much and too little of our own efforts
Reflect on every thing you hear, but believe only on proof
An hour sometimes restore us the sum of many years losses