This channel is massively underrated

Epictetus had a special scorn for those who “merely tremble and mourn and seek to escape misfortune.” “Zeus” he cries out at one point. “Send me what trial thou wilt! For I have endowments and resources, given to me by thee, to give myself honor through what befalls!” ...to give myself honor through what befalls 🙏

I believe this is a great lecture in Epictetus. So please even enemy's can respect each other, there is no need for insults. He did a wonderful job to portrait him i believe. By the way I am a philosophy major and Im doing research on the stoics as of now. This video was really helpful. Thanks for your effort!

@kianopin4357

6 жыл бұрын

Lol, philosophy majors.

@clermeil

5 жыл бұрын

But sometimes a insightful and cutting insult is soooooooooooooooooooo satisfying and makes the victim stronger.

intetesting lecture, specially that covering free will and virtue. thank you

Great lecture! Stoicism is the best

Don't tell people your plans or ideas they may just be saying to themselves wow that sounds like something I can interfere with.

@danielcarrillo6504

5 жыл бұрын

If it's a perception it's most likely a reality.

This is what the internet is for!!

Thanks for teaching me about Epictetus.

@MatoNupai

2 жыл бұрын

The recoded discourses and The Enchiridion is all you need to be a good Stoic. I put Epictetus higher than Aristotle or Plato

I am listening and listen so good

This was awesome! Great style. I'm off to go listen to your Marcus Aurelius now!

Good stuff

You're definitely right about the stoic influence on Spinoza. There's a recent book that I haven't taken the time to get my hands on yet called 'Spinoza and the Stoics: Power, Politics and the Passions' by Firmin DeBrabander. It's on my 'to-read list' though.

Thanks

What is the music used for the lead-in? Would appreciate any information, thanks.

@angelohieronymous2692

3 жыл бұрын

Darude - Sandstorm

and that is how the cookie crumbles

@samuelmcaleer9720

8 жыл бұрын

+William Wheeler this is the strangest comment I will ever see for I do believe the cookie will always crumble. There was never any surplus of cookies. You desire to lose the cookie because it's purpose never was beneficial.

@yuvalyehezkel5558

3 жыл бұрын

If, for example, you are fond of a specific cookie, remind yourself that it is only cookies in general of which you are fond. Then, if it crumbles, you will not be disturbed.

Epictetus loved to play Croquet (apparently).

@MatoNupai

2 жыл бұрын

No that was his crutch. He was a slave and his owner flew into a rage breaking his leg and he was lame for the rest of his life

Is that a drawing of Epictetus writing in a book? I thought he didn't write anything down.

@MrJoeyBoombotz

7 жыл бұрын

No it is Moses.

@MatoNupai

2 жыл бұрын

Correct. Epictetus never recorded his discourses or his book The Enchiridion

The person in this podcast is incorrect. Some of the discourses of Musonius Rufus were recorded and survives. I know because I recently read The discourses of Musonious Rufus. However Epictetus is my favorite philosopher.

I appreciate Epictetus' thought, Spinoza seems to be heavily inspired. I hate sartre

@facesmasher4216

5 жыл бұрын

zendertaker - sartre is a wanna be philosopher as we understand

@idk8856

3 жыл бұрын

hey wow whats so bad about satre?

I'm a little confused about how you use "choice". If I'm thrown into prison my choices become very narrow. They are affected by my situation. You make it seem as if externals have no affect on choice whatsover, and that's simply not the case. What I think Epictetus is saying is we can choose to accept things beyond our control, so if the Emperor throws me into prison I can choose not to be dismayed by that simply by accepting my fate. The Emperor has no control over my attitude, merely where he places my body, or if he removes my head. So be it. Your call Mr. Emperor. I'm perfectly fine with whatever you decide. It's your call, not mine, so I won't waste any of my time bickering about it. That's how I see "choice" in the context Epictetus means it.

@MrFreakboymccarthy

10 жыл бұрын

Externals have 'instrumental value' for Epictetus such that you can choose to use them wisely and virtuously, or not. That is, there is NO situation where external goods are not around. Externals do not have 'an affect', because it is 'up to you' how you use them. The key for Epictetus is to live as a virtuous person so that good choices become habitual. The workings of your body, for example, is always present but can (a) elude your control, such as when you get ill or tortured (look up Epictetus student Admiral James Bond Stockdale and his time as a POW), and (b) the working of your body doesn't determine your choices concerning virtue. You can be ill and choose to perform virtuous deeds, and healthy and choose to perform vicious deeds. "The hypothetical proposition is indifferent: the judgment about it is not indifferent, but it is either knowledge or opinion or error. Thus life is indifferent: the use is not indifferent." (Epictetus, Discourses). Having a life is indifferent (is not up to you), but what you do IN life is not indifferent (it is up to you)

@JamesOsyris

6 жыл бұрын

Our choices are up to us. We always have some sort of choice. It doesn't mean we have every choice there can be.

@dollarcostbackpacker1226

6 жыл бұрын

Still have choice, even though it is "narrowed" not much diffrent than not being able to choose your skin color parents or reality we are born into.

@seansmith5468

4 жыл бұрын

10:04

Jean-Paul Sartre is also a slave.

Academic pronunciation - every single letter of a word is "pronounced" until the tone of the voice is possible - gives the creeps.

All philosophy somehow seems unfinished. Perhaps because we don't yet understand what love and wisdom actually are.

I like this guy, but he does tend to drone on.

Meta programming.

Charles Manson said many things similar to this

@viciousvictory6380

6 жыл бұрын

Pik Osyris show me links. I have searched for proof of this and it is pointing to none of what you wrote.

@jaredprince4772

5 жыл бұрын

It's better to learn positive things from honorable men than learn what to not do from those without honor.

@facesmasher4216

5 жыл бұрын

Vicious Victory - if you truly a philosopher you must know the answer to your inquire by now it's not what you see but what you see is not

@facesmasher4216

5 жыл бұрын

Jared Prince - what is to be honorable for you?

@jaredprince4772

5 жыл бұрын

+stumpunk pumpin Charles Manson is not. You define for yourself using some common sense and I will define for myself, not for you, accordingly.

I think about the last thing I want do is to listen to Kermit The Frog talking about Epictetus.

@jaredprince4772

5 жыл бұрын

Kermit is an honorable frog and there is none better to listen to. It is not Kermit's fault that he is a frog. He accepts it and is the best frog he can be. If you are a frog, you too should be the best frog you can be.

@facesmasher4216

5 жыл бұрын

who knows, he may say something usuable as you did so

"Condemned to be free" is a phrase only a wealthy idiot could spout.

@Game7Mode

6 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha truth

@facesmasher4216

5 жыл бұрын

ravenshireful - correct; it's idiosyncracy at its maximun iow, a brainwash

Uses terms like free will, stoicism, ethics, logic, physics and flings them all about willy nilly with no structure or context or even a definition of the terms being employed. In other words, a mess.

@user-kt9jy6kx7d

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaaahaha true dattt

It's okay. I still like those Canadians better, but this dude is on the same tamale.

Actually, this guy's way too judgemental.