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  1. I know you're asking about China, but execution-by-suicide was seen in Western antiquity too, with prominent examples like Socrates and Seneca. At least in the case of Rome, one reason behind it was financial: Suicide allowed one to pass on one's estate to one's heirs, while execution did not. See e.g.

  2. I read the previous entry and the entry from one year prior.

  3. I stand corrected. Dunno why that one didn't come up in my searches.

  4. Not saying there wasn't a continuous school, of course there was, but that the other Hellenistic schools don't seem to have engaged with them.

  5. Got it, thanks for the elaboration. In addition to Cornutus, another (even later) example of Stoic engagement with Peripatetics is Marcus Aurelius's brief discussion of Theophrastus in Meditations 2.10.

  6. If it made them more money than not to do so, they helped the Chinese.

  7. I don’t even know what that is, I was just referring to what he looks like and his general mannerisms.

  8. I hear The Onion is about to drop Local Man.

  9. This work is currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The identity of the artist was not confirmed until 2010. Until that time he was referred to as the

  10. Well this didn't age well...

  11. A very special episode of UN Friends.

  12. The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics has two very good chapters on the history of Stoicism.

  13. If infrastructure can’t keep up with the growth then yes it can create problems. Toronto is having this problem right now because it’s where most new immigrants (understandably) end up. We have areas with literally no schools available for example.

  14. Yes, you can have too much immigration. To find the threshold above which there is too much, you will need to be mindful of the

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