The problem of the perverse
If virtue is natural, how come that most people behave unvirtuously?
One of the most powerful ideas of Stoic philosophy is that we are naturally “virtuous,” by which the Stoics meant that Nature endows us with the ability to reason and an innate tendency to act prosocially. And virtue—according to Seneca—is nothing but “right” reason, meaning reason applie…
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