Citizen Podcast

In this episode, Dan discusses Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, his thesis that America succeeded where others failed because of small associations, and his warning that abandoning those small associations for polite bureaucracies would be the end of our Republic.

In this episode, Dan discusses the entire Stoic Chain, where the Stoics eventually hit a wall, how the Stoic Chain shows up in the New Testament, and how Jesus became the perfect example of each of these elements.

In today’s episode, Dan discusses Kairos, the final element of the Stoic Chain, which tells us that frank information is good, but without the proper timing, it turns from medicine into a punitive action.

In today’s episode, Dan explores the third of the four elements of the Stoic Chain, Parrhesia, which states if people are indeed my tribe, my family, I owe them the frank truth.

In today’s episode, Dan explores the Stoic Chain principle Sympatheia, which states that the people who are my family, my tribe, always were and instead of forming those relationships, I discovered them.