This is a transcription of my introductory speech for the first Stoic meeting of the Cambridge Stoa
Introduction
So, we are going to divide the meeting in the following parts:
- I want to explain to you, who am I; why I decide to create this meet-up; I want to give a short intro an what is Stoicism and what it means to me and possible to you.
- I want to hear from you, what is your experience with Stoicism? Do you know it? Who of you ever heard about Stoicism?
- Here with me I have many books, I thought we can start by discussing one of the main topics of the Stoicism, the duality of control, reading from Epictetus. If you want to discuss a specific topic, we can discuss it, or better we can discuss next time.
Why this meeting?
For what concern me. I encountered Stoicism for the first time, like many in school, but in more recent time, it started appearing in my podcasts then in and some videos on you tube. I wandered what was all that fuss about and, in the last year started or so I start having an increasing interest in stoicism.
I started reading the books, Donald Robertson, Pigliucci, etc. I also went to a Stoic conference in London, the “Stoicon”.
There three-hundred people gather to discuss and listen about stoicism. There again I met people from the Stoic Fellowship, an international organization that promote the spread of Stoicism. I have joined them and decide to start and seek people with this interest.
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