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Book Club Recordings: How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
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May 11, 2021
8-14-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 8 at the paragraph starting with “Death, when I rode in triumph through the streets of Rome alongside Lucius, where you with me then?”
8-7-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 7 at “nature gave us the virtues to deal with anger”
7-31-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 7 at “1. we are naturally social animals, designed to help one another”
7-24-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 7 at the paragraph stating with “at the far side of the empire, over fifteen hundred miles away, an exhausted dispatch rider…”’
Note: there was no book club recording last week due to our recording bot breaking
7-10-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 6 at “The Premeditation of adversity”
7-3-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 5 at the section “stoic acceptance”
6-26-21
In this session we stopped in chapter 5 at the subchapter “how to tolerate pain”
6-19-21
in this weeks session we stopped at the top of chapter 5
6-12-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 4 at the paragraph “Marcus led the dance of the salii, the ancient leaping warrior priests, and trained in boxing and wrestling as a youth.”
6-5-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 4 at the subchapter break “how to conquer desire”
5-29-21
In this session we stopped at the beginning of chapter 4
5-22-21
In this session we stopped in chapter 3 the paragraph starting with “in addition to asking ourselves what qualities the ideal wise person might have, we can ask what qualities we might hope to possess in the distant future”.
5-15-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 3 at the paragraph starting with “We can perhaps infer which aspects of Marcus’ character Rusticus challenged based upon comments in the meditations.”
5-8-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 2 at the paragraph starting with “indeed, one way of understanding the contrast between stoic philosophy and sophistic rhetoric…”
5-1-21
in this session we stopped in chapter 2, at the paragraph starting with “Perhaps Diognetus dressed and lived as a philosopher himself and Marcus was inspired to imitate his example.”
4-24-21
this is our fist session for this book we stopped in chapter 1 at the subchapter “what did the stoics believe”
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