Kate Bowler Challenges Stoicism’s Most Famous Idea

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. It's always interesting when you find out you disagree with someone.

Like, you're aligned on most things and then they just have a very different opinion than you. You know, like, put aside bad faith disagreements or or criticisms. Those those are difficult to handle and none of us are particularly great at dealing with that. But what about like when there's someone who who you're lined up with on most things, you are fans of many of the same things, and then you find out that they've got a a very different opinion than you.

Kate Bowler, whose work I love, she's a professor of religious history at Duke University at 35, she basically finds out she has stage four cancer, basically a terminal diagnosis, and and all of a sudden, she knows she has to rethink like not just her life, how little of it might be left, but, you know, all her views about suffering and success and control and faith and hope, all of that, right? In the way that a a diagnosis like that would turn everything upside down. And she wrote this beautiful essay in the New York Times that my sister and I connected over when my sister was going through cancer. In that essay she she quotes and talks about the stoke.

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