1. Nancy Sherman on ancient and modern Stoic wisdom - Listen -

1. Nancy Sherman on ancient and modern Stoic wisdom

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Rob and Massimo talk to Nancy Sherman, author of Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience. We touch on the good and the bad of modern Stoicism, what the ancients got right (or not), and the complex relationship between Stoicism and the military. [Episode extracted from a show formerly known as the Stoa Nova Conversations.]

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