Plutarch, On Tranquility - Focusing On What's Good In Our Lives - Sadler's Lectures

05/07/2025 13 min
Plutarch, On Tranquility - Focusing On What's Good In Our Lives - Sadler's Lectures

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Episode Synopsis

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Middle Platonist philosopher and biographer Plutarch's essay On Tranquility

This episode focuses specifically on his advice that we ought to direct our focus to what is actually good in our lives, and respond to those things with a sense of joy and appreciation (kharis). If we look at our lives, we actually have a number of good things either in the present or even in the past

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