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2009-09-26 - "I can't go on, I'll go on" - Samuel Johnson and the Stoics

2009-09-26 - "I can't go on, I'll go on" - Samuel Johnson and the Stoics

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DATE : Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000
Entered in Database : 2009-09-25 14:00:00
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Three hundred years ago this month, the great Samuel Johnson was born. He was a lexicographer, a poet, an essayist, a heroically good man and a tortured depressive. But was he also a philosopher? This week, we look at Johnson and at the ancient Stoics, whose sober philosophy combined with Christianity in Johnson´s view of the world.

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