It is a Lonely Thing | Sweat the Small Stuff
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What key Stoic virtues are explored in this episode?
Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. It is a lonely thing. Many people knew. They knew they were flirting with danger. They knew he had designs. They knew that these were compromises that violated Rome's traditions. They knew that he would never be satisfied. They didn't do anything. They didn't say anything or try to stop it because they weren't sure how it was going to go down. This is the story of the rise of Caesar. It's the story of Octavian, his successor. It's the story of Rome's emperors, competent and cruel alike. It is not the story of Cato, who stood up against it. It is not the story of Thrasia and Helvidius, who stood against Nero.
It is not the story of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the translator of Epictetus, who was radicalized in the 1850s by the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, seeing clearly the lengths the slave powers would go to. These were lonely positions. They were not, at first, successful positions either. But that's not what a Stoic thinks about. They think about what is right. They don't ask, is this safe? They say, that's wrong. And they say this loudly and repeatedly, even if it's unpopular, even if they are threatened for it, because that's what courage and justice, two of the most essential Stoic virtues, demand of us. That's also the theme of Right Thing right now, which is my third book in the Stoked Virtue series, which is all about...
how we do this, how we take those lonely stands, why we take those lonely stands, what sustains us when we take them. And I think there are obviously some connections to where we are historically, politically, culturally right now. You can grab Right Thing Right Now, as well as Courage is Calling, or the whole Virtue set, actually, if you want, and learn from some wonderful men and women who chose to step up when it mattered. We should study these people, we should study their actions, and then we should go do the same.
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