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Re: Memory & History


Sam Pawlett wrote:

>
>
> Apart from Marx and Engels, one of the only economists with a deep sense
> of the tragic nature of the human condition is Amartya Sen whose stoic
> acceptance of the tragic nature of the lives of the poorest under
> capitalism render him a modern Marcus Aurelius or Senaca.

Are you accusing M&E of stoicism? This needs some expansion. Marx so far as I know
was an admirer of the anti-stoic thought of Lucretius, Epicurus, etc. Stoicism is
merely a slightly more amused Christianity.

Carrol
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