{"id":2288,"date":"2021-12-15T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/louis-lavelle-on-the-stoic-wisdom\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:31:35","slug":"louis-lavelle-on-the-stoic-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/louis-lavelle-on-the-stoic-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Lavelle on the Stoic Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/louis-lavelle-on-the-stoic-wisdom\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I am a lover of the Stoics. Why waste time on New Age hucksters when one can read Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius? But while the Stoics can take us a good stretch down the road to wisdom, they cannot bring us to the end \u2014 a fact long appreciated by first-rate minds. In late antiquity, Aurelius Augustinus offered a critique of the Stoics in Book XIX, Chapter 4 of&#0160;<strong>The City of God<\/strong>, a critique worthy of being called classical. We will have to examine that critique one of these days. But today I want to draw your attention to some passages from Chapter 10, Section 4 of Louis Lavelle&#39;s&#0160;<strong>The Dilemma of Narcissus<\/strong>&#0160;(Allen &amp; Unwin, 1973, tr. Gairdner):<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/louis-lavelle-on-the-stoic-wisdom\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. I am a lover of the Stoics. Why waste time on New Age hucksters when one can read Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius? But while the Stoics can take us a good stretch down the road to wisdom, they cannot bring us to the end \u2014 a fact long appreciated by first-rate minds. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/louis-lavelle-on-the-stoic-wisdom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Louis Lavelle on the Stoic Wisdom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,174,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lavelle","category-stoicism","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}