EPISODE · Apr 23, 2019 · 2 MIN
350. Want to be alive? Pay the taxes of life
from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci
Seneca uses an interesting economic analogy to remind us that the privilege of being alive comes with the tax of suffering setbacks and losses. Understanding this helps us to cope with problems and even to look forward to them as further exercises in virtue.
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