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Figs in Winter is written by Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. The newsletter is about philosophy as a way of life, as it has been since at least Socrates and Buddha. Subscribe for free to get accesso to:

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Why “Figs in Winter”?

Well: “In such fashion do you too remind yourself that the object of your love is mortal; it is not one of your own possessions; it has been given you for the present, not inseparably nor for ever, but like a fig, or a cluster of grapes, at a fixed season of the year, and that if you hanker for it in the winter, you are a fool. If in this way you long for your son, or your friend, at a time when he is not given to you, rest assured that you are hankering for a fig in winter-time. For as winter-time is to a fig, so is every state of affairs, which arises out of the universe, in relation to the things which are destroyed in accordance with that same state of affairs.” (Epictetus, Discourses, III.24). And you can find more here.