What Ryan Holiday Would Ask Marcus Aurelius
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. One of the questions I get asked the most is if I could ask Marcus Aurelius any question. What would I ask him?
Usually I somewhat cheekily say. I'd ask him. Man, what the hell happened? was commodus. And it is fascinating, right? Like how does someone who's so decent and
diligent and responsible and dutiful, someone who Is so philosophical. someone so committed to these ideas of stoicism, how do they leave their empire to a a son who is the opposite of everything they stand for? Like Was he blind to Commodus' faults? Was he negligent as a parent?
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