The Daily Stoic - We Have To Care About This

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Starting point is 00:00:50 We have to care about this. In its fascinating book, Barry the Chains, about the abolition movement in London, Adam Hoss child writes that the 18th century movement to abolish the slave trade was perhaps the first time in human history that a large group of people got outraged about other people's rights. Most of the political and social movements up until then is important as they were, were inherently self-driven. People wanted to make sure they had freedom. They wanted to make sure their voice was heard. They wanted to make sure the government responded to their needs. But abolition? This was a movement to help in free slaves,

Starting point is 00:01:27 almost entirely driven by people who never were and never would be slaves. One exception to this fascinating life is OluDot Aquano, who more people should know about. I read his book when I was researching for the 50th Law. But it's important to miss how important this is, especially in an individually focused philosophy like Stoicism. Marcus Aurelius and Seneca and Cato were not evil people, but they were remarkably indifferent to the fates of almost everyone outside of their class or case. Even Epictetus,

Starting point is 00:01:56 who was a slave, seemed to focus quite a bit on his individual independence, but says nothing about the injustices of slavery itself. Independence is important, protecting our rights is important. But we have to remember, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, that a threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We have to care about people in different situations than us, people will never meet,

Starting point is 00:02:20 people with problems totally removed from ours, not just because it's in our self-interest, but because that's what virtue demands. Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Stoke podcast. Again, if you don't know this, you can get these delivered to you via email every day. So check it out at dailystoke.com slash email. Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery

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The Daily Stoic - We Have To Care About This

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