This special episode contains a live recording of my recent talk for Conversations with Modern Stoicism, hosted by . We were celebrating Marcus Aurelius’ birthday, and I spoke at length about what I think we can learn from ancient Greece about the dangers faced by democracy, and how Socrates and the Stoics could help us. I was speaking live from Athens, the birthplace of democracy. Thanks to Phil Yanov, for providing the audio recording for this podcast episode.

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In this episode, I speak with Mark Tuitert. Mark is an Olympic gold medallist in speed skating. He is the author of a new book called The Stoic Mindset: Living the Ten Principles of Stoicism.

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Highlights

* How Mark’s accomplishments in speed skating shaped his life

* How he first become interested in Stoicism and Marcus Aurelius inspire you

* How do you Stoicism helped Mark as an athlete

* What do you think were the key things that helped you deal with your own anger?

* What do you think the relationship is between the sporting or Olympic mindset and the Stoic mindset?

* What’s your favorite exercise from the book and why?

* How do you feel about the experience of being in Athens and visiting the home of philosophy?

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In this episode, I speak with Anthony Magnabosco a founder and the current Executive Director of the nonprofit Street Epistemology International, an educational organization that is committed to addressing dysfunction in public and private discourse by encouraging rationality through civil conversation. Anthony has been involved with Street Epistemology since 2013, and has given dozens of talks and workshops at conferences and events domestically and internationally. Many of his conversations have been uploaded to YouTube and demonstrate how Street Epistemology can be applied to a variety of claims including ones that are spiritual, political, or societal.

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Highlights

* What is Street Epistemology?

* What have you learned from your experience of using Street Epistemology?

* How do you think it relates to the original Socratic Method? 

* How might it relate to psychotherapy? 

* Do you think Street Epistemology has any therapeutic potential?

* What do you think of variations of Street Epistemology like Hidden Claim or the Spectrum SE we see Peter Boghossian doing?

* What do you think the future holds for the method? 

Links

* Street Epistemology website

* Anthony Magnabosco YouTube

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