You’re Not as Powerful as You Think (Seneca)
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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. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. As you know, on Sundays... It's sort of a grab bag episode.
We like to run excerpts of audiobooks, texts from the Stoics, you know, deep dives into different topics. Well, today I wanted to bring you a letter from Seneca. This was produced by Tim Ferris Audio. He has a great book called The Tau of Seneca, which is an audiobook of Seneca's various essays. If you read Letters of a Stoic, you should know that's
It's not the whole book. There's a a bunch not included there. And so in today's episode, I'm bringing you letter 47, Seneca on master and slave. And basically in this letter, Seneca gets real about something that we don't hear enough about with the Stoics, which was their relationship to the institution of slavery, which of course existed in ancient Rome. Not quite the same as chattel slavery, but it was real and awful enough that it crippled Epictetus for life, took 30 years of his life.
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