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		dazzawazza on Jan 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in Mod... While it's certainly not to my taste if it exposes more people to philosophy and helps them on the path to a calmer existence... why should we care? If we can't expose philosophy to everyone.. then many are stuck with religion and that's not good for anyone.

mistermann on Jan 12, 2024 | [–]

Whether religion is not good for anyone is a very interesting and difficult philosophical/psychological question.

avgcorrection on Jan 12, 2024 | [–]

What’s bad about being stuck (so-called) with Buddhism compared to this?

For that matter: being stuck with Stoicism compared to Buddhism also wouldn’t be bad.

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