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      "url": "https://livingstoicism.com/2026/07/16/epicteto-brocense-1612/",
      "title": "Doctrina del estoico filósofo Epicteto — El Brocense (1612)",
      "summary": "El Enquiridión de Epicteto en castellano: la Doctrina del estoico filósofo Epicteto, versión de El Brocense (Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas), Barcelona, 1612.",
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      "title": "Stoic Cosmology and Ethics",
      "summary": "How Stoic ethics grows from their cosmology: humans as social, language-using animals seeking what benefits themselves and the common good.",
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      "title": "The Scientific God of the Stoics",
      "summary": "A Side View reply: why the Stoic god is a scientific, naturalistic cosmology—not mysticism incompatible with modern physics and biology.",
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      "title": "What is Controlling What?",
      "summary": "The Stoic Dichotomy of Control is a modern invention that fails to understand and completely distorts the actual message of Epictetus.",
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      "title": "The Handpage to the Handbook of Epictetus",
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