Figs in Winter
Dec 18, 2021

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I see what you mean. But in a highly social species like us, flourishing is inherently and inextricably a social matter. One can’t flourish by himself. And the Greco-Romans certainly didn’t include counterproductive ways of flourishing. A flourishing egotist, for them, is not flourishing at all, as a eudaimonic life includes virtue, which is other-directed.

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Figs in Winter
Figs in Winter

Written by Figs in Winter

by Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. Exploring and practicing Stoicism & other philosophies of life.

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