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@theswiss7f500

2 жыл бұрын

Have you thought about doing colabs with other history channels to grow your audience like kraut or someone els ? ps your art and videos are amazing And Cher’s from Glarus Switzerland

I'm calling it right now, the next video will be about the Czechoslovak legion.

@gp9850

2 жыл бұрын

That was the first thing that came to my mind too.

@michellegentilozzi6268

2 жыл бұрын

You got it right

@tylerlouie8609

2 жыл бұрын

congrats, you called it

@Divinegoldenlight

2 жыл бұрын

You deserve a reward for actually calling it

Philosophy is cool especially when it's in a countryball form

@Phamtomdark

Жыл бұрын

philosophy is always and has always been cool *period*

The real Sigma mindset

@ascottishgamerx9728

2 жыл бұрын

Ignore your dying mother #sigmalife

@robertspeedwagon982

2 жыл бұрын

Your city decided to kill you ? Don't care #socratlionnairegrindset

@danorott

2 жыл бұрын

@@ascottishgamerx9728 #based

@venuasaur560

2 жыл бұрын

@@ascottishgamerx9728 #grindset

@kaanyasin3733

Жыл бұрын

Dont live in civilisation #sigmamindset

Alright, we got a Diogenes refrence

@jonsayshi5652

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJuqwbeinMKcYs4.html

@jonsayshi5652

2 жыл бұрын

1.5x

@Danaredlp

2 жыл бұрын

Certified gamer moment.

@tristansoendergaard7867

2 жыл бұрын

But why is he a turkball?

@odysseas1711

2 жыл бұрын

@@tristansoendergaard7867 he was from pontus-modern day turkey. CallMeEzekiel usually uses the countryballs according to modern borders, as with Aristotle in this video

"Cynicism means the philosophy of the dog, this name started as an insult, but the cynics seemed to like it and adopted it as their official name." Lmao, why is this so funny?

@AjarTadpole7202

Жыл бұрын

Same reason the brits calling Americans Yankees during the revolution is funny

@venezuelaanimations3732

Жыл бұрын

Or why the democratic party is a donkey, which started thanks to Andrew Johnson

@long-hair-dont-care88.

Жыл бұрын

Because it explains the philosophy perfectly an is a funny story.

Whenever I become radicalized by other people, or other ways of living/acting...I turn to stoicism, and it grounds me again.

@notjustiny.6750

2 жыл бұрын

Not based

@rasmushansen5055

2 жыл бұрын

Based

@notjustiny.6750

2 жыл бұрын

@@rasmushansen5055 i respectfully disagree

@saveriannathan1415

2 жыл бұрын

@@notjustiny.6750 cringe

@notjustiny.6750

2 жыл бұрын

@@saveriannathan1415 Cringer

"Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them" - Demonax

@actpuzzled4441

11 ай бұрын

The chaotic good grindset

My only issue is that the cynicists were not Turkish and should not be represented by the turkic flag, they were some of the anatolians that lived there before the turks

@the7screw

2 жыл бұрын

That is a general issue with flags, how many would recognise an Anatolian ball? Even if choosing the Turkish flag was an accident it still proves my point.

@pyotrbagration2438

2 жыл бұрын

Relax its a running gag (macedonian aristotle, rhodesian archers etc)

@Chorophilax

2 жыл бұрын

Ezeciel uses flags from modern countries for some individuals that were born within the modern borders. Diogenes was born in Sinop, thats why he has a Turkish flag even though he was Greek.

@sarosp9330

2 жыл бұрын

@@the7screw I know, but most people don't recognize the owl of Athens either. And how would people feel if a native american tribe before colonialism was represented by a British or American country ball?

@the7screw

2 жыл бұрын

@@sarosp9330 I'd still argue that's different, since those minorities and city still exist, and I think are big enough to warden their own flags. And in cases where they're not, countryballs usually use billiard balls to represent unspecified groups.

4:38 "Cold Mexico" I'm going to tell this to the leaves on /pol/ for now on.

show a greek philosopher as turkeyball I can feel anger growing in blueballs

as a stoic myself i get called antisocial and egoistic all the time and that i dont have emotions because i detached myself from attachment. that might bring problems if you want to find a partner but who needs a partner when everyone can be as close of a friend as a partner can be :) just never attach to them and if they arent around or leave your live. dont moan. but move on and replace them with a new one

@Balajohn_

2 жыл бұрын

Well the modern ethics of our world clash with the ethics of stoicism and is only natural for someone who follows this path face social isolation from the modern westerm societies

@saveriannathan1415

2 жыл бұрын

A stoic homies would be good

@petergriffintv8315

2 жыл бұрын

Yikes

@thenightwatchman1598

Жыл бұрын

okay then psychopath.

I definitely don’t agree with Stoicisms ethics but one particular part of them is really interesting to me. The part that says you shouldn’t be mad at bad things that happen to you, such as the death of a loved one. Part of me says that’s true, you shouldn’t get sad as achieving happiness is the goal of life. The other half of me is saying if you don’t experience the depths of despair you’ll never be able to appreciate the heights of happiness. I don’t really know what to think about this.

@brutusthebear9050

2 жыл бұрын

I think of it this way. Value is what brings human flourishing, eudaimonia. Short term happiness is not the goal, eudaimonia is. So you must act to gain and keep things in order to reach eudaimonia. If you lose that thing, the pain you feel *should* be proportional to the value lost. Mourning is good. By the way, mourning is good from a psychological perspective as well. Hence why it is good morally. You only hurt yourself by distancing yourself from desire. The stoic philosophy is one of death and nihilism, just as Kant's philosophy was later.

@calbor2561

2 жыл бұрын

@@brutusthebear9050 I think you’re right, I mentioned that if you where never sad then you would never be able to appreciate being happy but you also mentioned that if you don’t mourn you’re distancing yourself from desire and happiness by not appreciating things that give you value which I hadn’t thought of.

@snakeslife-uroborodjinn790

2 жыл бұрын

The stoics never said you should sever yourself from emotions.but despairing over death won't raise anyone back to life.

Gotta love that RimWorld soundtrack

I would not say that Stoics don't care of anything or are apathetic in our sense of word. I would say they reject self-pity and related emotions. After all: "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

@youtubesurfer134

5 ай бұрын

modern liberals could really take a page from this philosophy.

The best part of stoicism is overcoming dark moments and not caring for what other people think of you. Seneca has some good quotes abour stoicism.

This makes me delightful that when I forgot this channel and searched it for a day and found it with my favourite subject makes my teeth show.

The tolerance of misery does nothing but beget more misery.

@long-hair-dont-care88.

Жыл бұрын

Tolerance yes acceptance no.

man this video ended way to quickly, i was really enjoying it looking forward to the next one! also thank you! with each video I find myself getting more books to read through them myself! my library is growing quite the size, and I have found myself giving books to friends for advice

Just commenting to boost it up in the agrithime

This channel has good soundtracks, Age of Mythology plus rimworld now?? Nice. Ps. i know your channel since the Vicky 2 guides, keep going!

oh boy are we getting a Czech Legion Video?

I don't know how I feel about diogenes being portrayed with the Turkish flag

@goose93

10 ай бұрын

Relax its just because dioceses was born in modern turkish borders

Rimworld OST starts playing *philosophical confusion*

Stoicism has some wisdom and truth in it, but it's extreme form and it's oft-attempted universal application just don't work. The idea that torture or starvation are the victims fault for being miserable over is just a base denial of the true animal of man. I mean two of Stoicisms most prominent followers in Rome, Cicero and Cato the Younger after their daughter and brother died respectfully; abandoned all their ideas of frugality and stoicism to engage in heartfelt and lavish funeral celebrations. Man can learn to be happier through stoicism, but stoicism was not a cure all. It never was.

@joey199412

2 жыл бұрын

Or it just shows that most people aren't strong enough to be stoic. Doesn't mean that the philosophy is naive or delusional. Just that most followers should have tried harder.

@richardharris534

2 жыл бұрын

@@joey199412 you could literally say that about any philosophy or way of live though. If thats the case, then pretty much everyone by your definition is weak cause people can change philosophy and their religion.

@fhialsdhkt43tg72

2 жыл бұрын

@@joey199412 "oh, that just means that most people were not virtuous enough for communism to work. They should have just tried harder" People have essential traits by being human. Philosophies that deny that are doomed to failure.

@eloiskret6074

2 жыл бұрын

Be it a man or a woman;when you're bitten. It hurts.

@jansvoboda4293

2 жыл бұрын

They do not blame victim of a torture. They advice that self-pity is not helpful. It just adds suffering of the soul to the suffering of the body.

Nice explanation of stoicism I have just one question: why don't you use Ancient Greeceball for ancient Greek philosophers instead of modern Greeceball.

4:48 - And suddenly, Commodus makes so much more sense

i always loved that you sound so enthusiastic in every video,which makes it interesting to watch it. Great Vid!

I love this channel!! I’ve been a silent watcher for a while. I really enjoy these informative and fun history videos. And Countryballs. I would gladly support via Patreon, but I don’t have a credit card or any other way to pay online. Regardless, I still love watching these videos!! Keep up the great work Ezekiel. Looking forward to the next video!!

isnt turkish flag reaaaly wrong while showing diogenes ? he was greek(maybe partialy) turks came there way after than that

@greekswaglord-dathistoryla201

2 жыл бұрын

It is more correct to show him with a pontic flag (it exists)

@k.umquat8604

2 жыл бұрын

It's a stylistic choice-it's also what he did with the Corduene.

@shaq6976

2 жыл бұрын

He also Represented Carthago with a Tunis Ball

@snakeslife-uroborodjinn790

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaq6976 Tunisians have Carthegian dna according to studies done in their haplogroups.

@shaq6976

2 жыл бұрын

@@snakeslife-uroborodjinn790 but it has nothing to do with it here 😄 He Used Tunisia because they Inhabit the lands of Carthage and he doesn’t wanna use a Flag most wouldn’t understand

Now i see, you are a man of culture, using rimworld OST while explaining Stoicism.

@rachard

2 жыл бұрын

Randy random gaming

4:39 The US when it annexed Canada in the Fallout Universe

As a Turk myself, I'm gonna really have to object to the use of the Turkish flag being used to represent the cynics. Based as they were (and therefore fucking awesome), they had nothing to do with the modern day inhabitants of Turkey. Edit: Forgive me Papa Ezekiel for I have sinned. I have blasphemed against being based. (I just read that this is a running theme with Macedonian Aristotle and what not)

@shaq6976

2 жыл бұрын

Well he Represented Carthage by Tunis before so I’m just rolling with it arkadaş

@tekinet7958

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine simping for him

YEEE HADES MUSIC YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE fitting too because its about ancient greece

Finally something I really wanted

Hi, first of all, really good video. Second of all but the first, it would be really cool if you added links to all of the book's and material mentioned in the video in the description of the video; I can only talk for myself but i think that like me there are a lot of people that find your videos not only really interesting but also motivating to read and investigate the philosophy and history topics you talk about in your videos.

Stoicism as he described it seems a lot like Taoism

Omg you’re using rimworld background music!!! I love it

Good video

Hey Ezekiel, Jack here I bet you can guess the Jack. This clay do the appreciate of video immensely. :)

Great content as always!

I always enjoy your philosophy videos, and this one is no exception!

Great video as always !

4:30 the problem is that you can not choose to not care, that happens automaticaly, so sad.

“And what are good people supposed to do when bad things happen to them?” *Shattered Assumptions Theory intensifies*

The Rimworld music really fits the topic

Lol my mum died I just dabbed and moved on I didn’t even go to her funeral because I was too busy grinding. #sigmagrindforlife

As always stellar music choices

I'll just come back to this video every couple months for a good reminder on how to deal with this ever bullshitting world.

Last time I was this early, there was no cave update

Another great video

Your content is so good

8:10 yeah it happened in NYC in the 70s, there's a whole documentary about it called "The Warriord"

Stoicism is a very influent philosophy in theology, the duty being following religion for Salvation

Rimworld music makes me a happy man

I love your videos!!!

This has given me an existential crisis

I'm really hoping the next one is about nietzsche

I read some books on stoicism for a couple of months. I felt so low, everything seemed pointless, limited and unimported. Estoicism is a very interesting philosophical current, but it made me sad in happy times.

These videos are my crack and I am fine with it

Seneca's very sad he didn't appear

Best philosophy series ever

Another absolute banger

Would be relly coll a episode on Thomas Aquinas

great video!

Love this thing of philosophy videos

you are fantastic

I tend to pretend that some ideas are characters, this helps me better come to grips with them. With stoicism, I imagine them to be not human, but something other above human, or that of a cliff-faced soldier. What I mean by those two, is while I admire the stoic, I do believe that they are a little too apathetic and duty-bound for my tastes.

Great content! I gotta ask, are you influenced/inspired by Leonard Peikoff's History of Philosophy? I ask 'cause you're one of the very few people who did not make a joke out of Objectivism, and the thing you said about later philosophers not having the problems that Stoics did (in terms of lip service to personal happiness) reminded me of one of his comments.

6:29 DoggoEzekiel

Why just lay back and take it, well as it was put so long ago. Suppose you're a dog that is attached to a moving cart with a leash, you can't influence it's direction, all you can do is walk around with your leash to it. Either you move with the cart, or you sit down and get dragged to it's destination regardless.

Very interesting video

Ooh, are you doing the Czech legion next?

Pls, I love your philosophy videos. If you want I think it would be interesting to talk about modern philosophy or medieval philosophy.

Stoicism where smiling is optional

If you think about it, turks have existed longer than Roman conquests, well if I'm right about them being Persian in some way, either the Turkish or the Iranians

This is pog!

Can you do a episode about the yom Kippur war from the perspective of both sides?

nice video keep it up

Great video! Stoicism seems like an interesting philosophy, but also seems incomplete in a way . Did anyone ever build off of stoicism with the formation of more modern philosophies?

@eman-ne2ul

2 жыл бұрын

@N3ppy Cool! Thanks for answering lol

Very good

I thought I recognized the Rim World music lol

Stoicism: Sometimes that just how it B

I dig the Rimworld music

Oh neat he is covering the czech legion next

Eudaimonia is (like all ancient greek) more complicated. Some classical scholars translate it as flourishing instead of merely happiness

Hah, good BGM choice I'm sorry I've played too much rimworld. I just need a few notes to recognize thst soundtrack . Nice and relaxing Anyways, another incredible video. Can't wait for the next one

Brah i am a Turkish person myself and i quite like the ideas and character of Diogenes but not gonna lie seeing him represented with Turkish flag was kinda cursed

It is rather primitive and self-contradictory school of thought. I find it most of Greek philosophy to be at the level of a village wise man. It does not tackle problems directly and is detached from human reality. They introduce apathy and indifference to what happens to an individual. However, they then contradict themselves by clinging to duty and virtue. If they would not care for what happens to them, they would not strive to struggle for the betterment of others and themselves. In their worldview, they can't justify duty and apathy at the same time. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. The only logical conclusion is a philosophy of a dog. Btw: I also get a lot of Buddhism vibes from Stoicism.

@alphabeticcorners9891

2 жыл бұрын

The Stoics believed that to achieve a life well lived, we should live according to nature, or better defined, our nature as a part of this universe, our nature as a human being, and the individual nature defined in us by our genetics and circumstance. Our distinct nature as humans compel us to be social, compassionate and virtuous, to use reason, as well as give us desires and aversions towards certain objects left over from evolution. However, those instinctual urges often contradict with those more advanced capacities, and for us to maintain our nature as humans, we must pay attention to both. It is not that the Stoics did not care for anything, or in a sense, exhibit the common definition of apathy, but instead that they do not care for what is not in their control for it would be unreasonable and only lead to suffering when in the end they have no influence on it. They can not control the outcome of events. However, they can control their ideals, judgements, and their will leading up to their action that will eventually affect the outcome, and it is there where the ideas of duty and virtue can be expressed. After the action has been executed, they know what comes after is not up to them.

COMMENTING FOR THE KZread ALGORITHM!!!!

Yooooooo Rimworld soundtrack!

yoooooooooooooooo,imma have to re think ma life and enjoy it

ngl that emperor not caring about the death of his sons makes him look like a psycho

@ricthecusco4428

2 жыл бұрын

i mean it's not like grieving would bring them back

I simply wanted to play vic2 properly How did I get here

Is the next video on the Czech Legion?

The capacity to recognize kataleptic impressions, and to ascend to those impressions so that they may better help us reach our moral responsibility to society, and ourselves. All in an attempt to reach eudemonia; Stoicism. Eudemonia also doesn't mean happiness, it's more like contentment.

@Phamtomdark

Жыл бұрын

Is Diogenes represented by the flag of Turkey because he was born in Sinope ? The concept of a Turk is a relatively modern idea that Diogenes would likely be cynical of... he also died in Corinth, which is still very 'Greek' also a concept he would be cynical of... likewise it wasn't like 'Greece' was a thing back then, just a bunch of city-states with a shared language, just a little weird anachronism you got going there, with your countryballs.

Why it is so difficult to accept that things just happen?

What was the relation between ancient philosophies and ancient religions. I am mostly thinking of the greko-roman world. I know Plato inspired a bit Christianity later and in the middle ages philosophy was done in the context of religion. So was there an interaction between the two in the Classical period? Did the teachings of philosophers shape the way everyday people were worshiping? Or the other way around?

@brutusthebear9050

2 жыл бұрын

DIM Hypothesis by Leonard Peikoff goes into this.

Please make polish soviet war of 1920

Kant ... fight the enlightenment?