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“Many times an old man has no other evidence besides his age to prove he has lived a long time.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 3.8b
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
The freedom to do what one intends, and not to do otherwise, is no less valuable than it ever was.
Sam Harris • Free Will
On this view, our most celebrated philosophers are like dogs
Nick Bostrom • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
enduring (epistemic) curiosity;
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Rationality, as Plato depicts it, is not only a means of smoothing out the demands of body or kin, but represents a full-fledged alternative, a third and independent source of answers to the question of how we should live.
Agnes Callard • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
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