Episode Details

Emotions are judgments in disguise. Can you learn to withhold yours?

Topics discussed:

• The Stoic theory of impressions, assent, and the role of judgment in emotional life
• How pneuma—the cosmic breath—structures the soul, the cosmos, and Stoic psychology
• The importance of prohairesis (moral will) as the seat of freedom and virtue
• Why the Stoics saw emotion as a consequence of belief
• The rigorous practices of attention, self-monitoring, and withholding assent
• How Stoicism offers a radical kind of inner freedom in a world ruled by fate

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