Fascinating tidbit I found in-The Project Gutenberg eBook of Roman Stoicism, by E. Vernon Arnold.
Did you know that there are diseases of the Soul? Maybe progressivism is just that, a test for the soul of humanity.
Pity and fear seems to rule a progressive person's life in how they think and act. Maybe a capitalist that applies a little stoic wisdom is all that is needed.
"So far Aristotle’s teaching differs little from that of Plato; but a new point of view is introduced when he speaks of the soul as subject to ‘diseases’ (παθήματα), and thus assigns to the practical philosopher a social function as the comrade of the physician. Amongst the diseases he specially names Pity and Fear, which assail the emotional part of the soul. Their cure is found in ‘purging’ (κάθαρσις), that is to say in their complete expulsion from the soul, as reason and circumstances may require; but Aristotle by no means considers that the analogy between body and soul is complete, or that the emotions should always be regarded as injurious"
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