Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
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Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
Analyzing Marcus Aurelius's Stoic practice of aestheticizing nature, violence, and aging, and the difficulty of living philosophically.
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