The Manosphere Got Stoicism Backwards
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This episode critiques the manosphere's misinterpretation of Stoic philosophy, highlighting the true teachings of Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca on masculinity and emotions.
The manosphere has spent years quoting the Stoics to young men. Marcus Aurelius. Epictetus. Seneca. The version they sell, anger as strength, dominance as virtue, emotion as weakness, is the opposite of what those philosophers actually wrote. In Meditations 11.18, Marcus Aurelius wrote in his private journal that gentleness is more manly than rage. Seneca, in Letter 63, wrote that we may weep but must not wail, and admitted he had been overcome by grief himself. Epictetus, in Discourses 2.10,...
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