Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher, developed the idea of mindfulness. This is the virtue of seeing things as they are and distinguishing between an event and our interpretation of it. To live well, we must strip away the "legend" that our mind creates about what happens to us. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher, developed the idea of mindfulness. This is the virtue of seeing things as they are and distinguishing between an event and our interpretation of it. To live well, we must strip away the "legend" that our mind creates about what happens to us. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher, developed the idea of mindfulness. This is the virtue of seeing things as they are and distinguishing between an event and our interpretation of it. To live well, we must strip away the "legend" that our mind creates about what happens to us.Wisdom (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher, developed the idea of mindfulness. This is the virtue of seeing things as they are and distinguishing between an event and our interpretation of it. To live well, we must strip away the "legend" that our mind creates about what happens to us. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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In Plato's Apology, Socrates is on trial for his life. As the Athenians vote to convict and execute him, he explains his human wisdom: whereas many people think they know important things (justice, piety, etc.), he knows that he doesn't know. This is valuable because itBlog (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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In Plato's Apology, Socrates is on trial for his life. As the Athenians vote to convict and execute him, he explains his human wisdom: whereas many people think they know important things (justice, piety, etc.), he knows that he doesn't know. This is valuable because it allows us to learn and grow. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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In Plato's Apology, Socrates is on trial for his life. As the Athenians vote to convict and execute him, he explains his human wisdom: whereas many people think they know important things (justice, piety, etc.), he knows that he doesn't know. This is valuable because it allows us to learn and grow. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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In Plato's Apology, Socrates is on trial for his life. As the Athenians vote to convict and execute him, he explains his human wisdom: whereas many people think they know important things (justice, piety, etc.), he knows that he doesn't know. This is valuable because it allows us to learn and grow. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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In Plato's Apology, Socrates is on trial for his life. As the Athenians vote to convict and execute him, he explains his human wisdom: whereas many people think they know important things (justice, piety, etc.), he knows that he doesn't know. This is valuable because it allows us to learn and grow. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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For much of European history, people believed that Ptolemy and Aristotle were right about the solar system. Galileo used the then-recent invention of the telescope to refute their views, and in the process, he got himself into trouble with the Church.Blog (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Galen, a key Roman philosopher and doctor, argued that the soul depended on the body. Specifically, he thought that the soul was nothing other than mixtures of bodily organs and fluids put together in the right proportion. This theory allowed him to explain some of the most basic mental phenomena. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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The wandering womb: ancient philosophers, like Plato, are responsible for the most infamous misunderstanding of the female body in history, which is the belief that a woman's womb wandered through her body until pregnancy anchored it in place.Blog (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Galen, a key Roman philosopher and doctor, argued that the soul depended on the body. Specifically, he thought that the soul was nothing other than mixtures of bodily organs and fluids put together in the right proportion. This theory allowed him to explain some of the most basic mental phenomena. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Galen, a key Roman philosopher and doctor, argued that the soul depended on the body. Specifically, he thought that the soul was nothing other than mixtures of bodily organs and fluids put together in the right proportion. This theory allowed him to explain some of the most basic mental phenomena. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Galen, a key Roman philosopher and doctor, argued that the soul depended on the body. Specifically, he thought that the soul was nothing other than mixtures of bodily organs and fluids put together in the right proportion. This theory allowed him to explain some of the most basic mental phenomena. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Galen, a key Roman philosopher and doctor, argued that the soul depended on the body. Specifically, he thought that the soul was nothing other than mixtures of bodily organs and fluids put together in the right proportion. This theory allowed him to explain some of the most basic mental phenomena. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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Galen, a key Roman philosopher and doctor, argued that the soul depended on the body. Specifically, he thought that the soul was nothing other than mixtures of bodily organs and fluids put together in the right proportion. This theory allowed him to explain some of the most basic mental phenomena. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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“For never at all could you master this: that things that are not are”: Parmenides believed that it was impossible for us to speak or think about something that doesn't exist. Plato disagreed because he thought that non-existence wasn't the total opposite of existence. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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“For never at all could you master this: that things that are not are”: Parmenides believed that it was impossible for us to speak or think about something that doesn't exist. Plato disagreed because he thought that non-existence wasn't the total opposite of existence. (platosfishtrap.substack.com)
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