Ryan Holiday and stocisim throughout history

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]I'll give you another great Marcus Aurelius quote, Ivanka. He says, "Waste no more time talking about what a good person is like, just be one."

[00:00:10]So, she's a bad person. He is condemning her as a bad person when he really knows nothing about her. Now, look, I'm not an expert on stoicism at all. Doesn't really interest me. Obviously an important thread in the history of Western philosophy, influential through the Christian thinkers, helped give us the concept of natural law. All that is really important, but I'm Christian, so I'm fine with stoicism to the extent it overlaps with Christian teachings.

[00:00:38]Otherwise, I'm not really interested in it, but clearly this Holiday's reaction is not stoical at all.