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briandmyers  ·  3608 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stoicism: a practical philosophy you can actually use

    it's actually possible philosophy has gone backward in the last 2000 years

It has certainly changed considerably, at least. For the Greeks and Romans, philosophy was expected to guide one in how to live one's daily life. That role is mostly expected to be filled by religion nowadays, not by philosophy.