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EPISODE · Jul 4, 2019 · 2 MIN

399. What's the difference between useful and useless?

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Epictetus argues that things are useless or useful not in themselves, but as a result of what we do with them. As usual in Stoicism, the answer comes from within, from our own attitudes toward things.

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Epictetus argues that things are useless or useful not in themselves, but as a result of what we do with them. As usual in Stoicism, the answer comes from within, from our own attitudes toward things.

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