{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6a733196996f688d8e701637/6a73a630c3e1347e8b226305?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Stoicism","description":"Imagine losing everything—your city in turmoil, your fortune gone, the world shifting beneath your feet. Would you crumble, or could you learn to stand unshaken? In ancient Athens, as the pillars of old certainty cracked, one school dared to ask: what can we hold onto when fortune turns against us?\r\n\r\nThe world that birthed Stoicism was not a tranquil one. The old city-states had lost their power. After Alexander the Great’s conquests, empires sprawled and the close ties between citizenship and happiness were broken. People lived with uncertainty. Philosophy was no longer just a contest of theories in the academy. It became a tool for survival. In this new world, the question wasn’t just what is true, but how should I live when nothing around me is secure?\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 32 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/stoicism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}