Stoic Meditations

243. Dining with a tyrant, are you?

Nov 20, 2018 · 2 min · Season 2 · Episode 244 · 2.7 MB
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Seneca gives us another Stoic "paradox": it may be better to be tortured than to sit at the dinner table. Well, not normally, but surely if you are being tortured to protect innocent lives, or sit at dinner with a tyrant. It all depends on context.