Why Does Evil Exist? (Aurelius) - a podcast by Dre Carlan

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“Say to yourself first thing in the morning: today I shall meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious, unsocial. All this has afflicted them through their ignorance of true good and evil. But I have seen that the nature of good is what is right, and the nature of evil what is wrong;...”
-Meditations, 2.1


“What comes from men is welcome for our kinship’s sake, but sometimes pitiable also, in a way, because of their ignorance of good and evil: and this is no less a disability than that which removes the distinction of light and dark.”
-Meditations, 2.13


“You know from experience that in all your wanderings you have nowhere found the good life—not in logic, not in wealth, not in glory, not in indulgence: nowhere. Where then is it to be found? In doing what man’s nature requires. And how is he to do this? By having principles to govern his impulses and actions. What are those principles? Those of good and evil—the belief that nothing is good for a human which does not make him just, self-controlled, brave, and free: and nothing evil which does not make him the opposite of these.”
-Meditations, 8.1

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