The Daily Stoic - All The Rest Is Commentary

Episode Date: January 20, 2021

“It’s a famous story, one we’ve told before. Hillel was asked to explain the Torah. ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself,’ he said. ‘All the rest is commentary.’”Ryan discusses why the fundamental concepts of philosophy are all that matter, and why you should embody them, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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All the rest is commentary. It's a famous story one we've told before. Halelle was asked to explain the Torah. Love thy neighbor as thyself, he said. All the rest is commentary. How would Marcus Aurelius or Senoko or Epictetus have answered a similar question? If you had asked Zeno or Clienthys or Musoneus Rufus or any of the other great Stoics to explain Stoicism in a few words or while standing on one leg, what would they have said? They probably would have just hit you with four words,

courage, temperance, justice, wisdom, or maybe they would have given you a sentence that implied those four words. It's not what happens to you in life. It's how you respond, meaning that every situation calls for us to respond with courage, justice, wisdom, or temperance. Or they'd have drawn on Marcus and Epic Titus' summation of philosophy, don't talk about being good, be good. Everything else, the hundreds of books that the Stoics wrote from the birth of Xeno to the death of Marcus Aurelius is commentary. Even this email is commentary because what really matters are those precepts, those basic commands for living.

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