A history of the philosophy of happiness

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[@arnijulian6241]

Funny thing is stoicism isn't always used for the pursuit of happiness if even often though can help. I'm rather stoic but I see it as a means to control yourself to make a better decision based on your & other experiences. To put mind before sentiment to gain a better outcome. Honestly everyone want happiness but it is fleeting thing you should recall fondly & enjoy when you can but life is much easier if you are content. Hardship will come but the stoic prepares for it to challenge it unlike other philosophies or beliefs that avoid hardship or think hard ship is a punishment for original sin or default state. Being an Englishmen i certainly am stoic but I consider it more tool in my assortment of mentalities to adopt in life depending on what the moment calls for. I'm a private person with my emotions want & cares to those not familiar-important to me but my mind I share freely for recollection from memory is marvellous thing we should all share freely even if some fantasists don't like it as it doesn't conform to their false comforts like religion or some contrived hoopla. Do I belief in an personified great sage like the early Greek stoic then off course not but the Romans refined it to a very useful mind set in trying times. Stoicism is for the Person that want to achieve against great odds not because they are guaranteed success but that challenges of life present opportunity to put your mental preparations against. People think me soulless or uncaring but if I knew what was coming & steered myself for it then why would lose composure at what came to be? When what comes is known & new I simply treat it as another trail to consider to be better prepared for in the future. mind I am flawed so even I lose my composure in the most trying of times on occasion. I'm only Human but you will be surprised what a mere human can achieve & do that will surprise. Christian haven't even accepted reality craving non existence of the afterlife. They fear defeat so much that they do not participate in life which death is a part off. They crave a probable fantasy of a perfect paradise that has no evidence or grounding. The ancients has their God's but even they openly questioned if they are real unlike those of the church for Abrahamic faith to not have blind fate is worse then any sin being laughable in it's inability to consider. Be content & know what you can & can't do then perhaps you should aim for happiness if that is your goal. Happiness is secondary to what I desire that I prefer to keep private but to those I trust & hold dear to me.

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[@elmaxidelsur]

ok, so the stoics got it right, thanks.

[@monkofmayhem1373]

25% on topic, 75% side track. Perfect, don’t ever change Mr.Beige

[@12many4you]

And all that in an hour long rant. Absolute perfection

[@Sari36YT]

Finally, a classic, long-form Lindybeige video! This is what we want. This is what we need.

[@jeremyayers5353]

This is what we crave

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This is what turns us on

[@Lewdog.]

His long forms make my week We need to clone him

[@GetterRay]

Speak for yourself, I'm still waiting on another dance video.

[@IronKilt]

Loyd is back in longform talking about philosophy! This pleases me greatly.

[@mannylopez2388]

indeed

[@mrsolodolo5770]

And long may it continue!

[@Oxnate]

Dang. If I knew that sending Lindy a new computer would result in an hour long video, I'd have sent him a computer years ago.

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Clearly we need to send him more computers ...

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That happened five years ago. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@@vincedibona4687For you see, it was years ago!

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A one hour LindyBeige video? Consider me happy!

[@denisdenak]

Ikr missed those

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Yeah I love this guy

[@FunLovingPotato]

Truly an unnatural necessity!

[@colinmackay92]

Incredible to see these classic Lindybeige videos returning

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

When I was in Basic Training I learned what it took to be happy. A Cold Coke, A Snickers Bar, 10 minutes without someone yelling at you.

[@garrysekelli6776]

Haven't tried it yet but I hear that if you stuff your spacebar in Taylor swift that that is the key to happiness. Also you can substitute for your favorite personal singer.

[@casamurphy]

Watching the weird Trump cult lose their minds over Taylor Swift's suggestion that people vote is quite amusing.

[@More_Row]

Suffering in a planned willingness kind of way often can lead to some happiness after or breaks during. Not just because of the pause, but also your assessment of how well you are holding up considering.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

@@More_Row "OMG, What Have I Gone And Done!" Aug 25 1967 Lackland AFB(my 1st night in basic I can Still picture it in my head today. Over the decades I have yet to meet a Vet who has not said something similar to that. Thing is, being in the Military is a lot like sex (You ARE going to get screwed at some point). You can read about it,, watch movies about it, Think about it talk about it. BUT unless you have experienced t, you have No Clue.

[@jonnick3634]

Same applies if you live in the Balkans

[@Zakalwe-01]

Having backed a copy of Lindy’s Hannibal book, I’m finding stoicism to be a vital coping mechanism 😁.

[@spikethelizard2770]

Whatever happened with that?

[@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510]

​@@spikethelizard2770What do you think? He got sidetracked 😄

[@nialltownley1788]

This just in: people who enjoy thinking about things think the best way to be happy is to spend lots of time thinking about things!

[@hughbarton5743]

I think they may well be right.

[@colonelkernel2959]

You released this video on the very same day I was assigned a paper on happiness in my ethics class. I clapped in excitement. Thanks.

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Kindly share your assignment paper i see if I will ace mine

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A Beige Interpretation of Happiness is happiness itself.

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This

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I learn most of my life stuff base on Lindy's rambling. It's life changing

[@arlen_95]

Thank you, Lindy! You put out the exact right video, right when I needed it most :)

[@jeremyayers5353]

Lindybeige is so British, he’s always gotta make a stab at the French 😂

[@cadileigh9948]

I suspect you mean English, The Celtic colonies have a long history of getting on well with the French

[@Arkantos117]

@@cadileigh9948 True the French would occasionally use the Irish rebels as cannon fodder.

[@DonaldoJTrumpet]

@@cadileigh9948 The English colonised nowhere in Great Britain apart from England, and the plague of Justinian cleared the way for that. The Normans did.

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we call everyone over the border Sais which you could say is equally inaccurate as describing Lindybeige as British but it is correct Cymraeg@@DonaldoJTrumpet

[@raphaelvulfs5467]

I have not started the video yet but seen a 1-hour video from LindyBeige about philosophy makes me happy. I missed those! Please keep them coming!

[@colegudding9510]

I did not know how badly I wanted LindyBeige to do sock puppet theater, but after that peripatetic bit I am convinced it would be excellent!

[@livingbeings]

I understand your distaste for philosophy in modern practice, but your philosophical videos have always been my favorites. Looking forward to more like this. Thank you.

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A one hour LindyBeige drop! Lets gooooooo.

[@lilacheaven222]

Finding the root of psychological distress is important though. It may not be enough to make it go away but working on ways to understand what happened, how it affects you and finding ways, be it exercises or medication, to ease that distress is crucial.

[@robwalker4452]

Lindybeige has made LindyGOLD with this one. Love the subject and the presentation so much... this man DEFINITLEY has more than 1 fan.

[@JesseP.Watson]

I came for the curiosity wall backdrop. It is unrivalled, peerless even. How I applaud the wall of Lloyd! All praise Lloyd's curious vertical visual collection!

[@dappledlight8073]

I feel like this was an hour long video teasing a second video. And I am here for it!

[@whatevsimbulletproof]

Love hearing your long talks!

[@StonedWidowOnDoom]

Stoic philosophy and Nietzsche helped me to overcome a lot of things that held me back. Nietzsche liked to dance a lot. He had a lot of examples linked to dancing. In some cases, he said musicians and dancers are closer to the Ubermensch as anyone else can be. I saw a theatrical play where this Nietzsche figure described the core of his philosophy the best, in my opinion. My philosophy is a thin rope stretched across an abyss (Nihilism). With this rope, you can cross this abyss and dance with joy while you do. Have to say, even when philosophers are obvious, if you never got in contact with these concepts you will never know it is obvious and even miss it. We only know some philosophy is wrong, because we see people experimenting with these concepts and either got happier or not. In my opinion, philosophy is important for all.

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

By all accounts he just danced by himself though. He also saw laughter as important.

[@StonedWidowOnDoom]

@@forthrightgambitia1032 Didn't know that. Fits his character, I guess. :^)

[@myparceltape1169]

Like Lindy dancing in a shiny new suit of armour.

[@LaneLibra]

Thank god... we finally got a proper video.

[@Champ-0999]

To be honest I'm a bit disappointed that there wasn't even a mention of non-western philosophies, but I understand that creating a continuous narrative is better for a video, and there wouldn't be any time to talk about everything else anyway, as one hour is already a lot. Still, I hope there will be a follow up video talking about more perspectives on this topic from around the world

[@AverageAlien]

If its non western its probably irrelevant

[@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510]

It's Lindy.... If its not British (preferably English) it's probably barely worth a mention. So you're lucky 😅

[@SplendidFellow]

Excellent summary of a lot of philosophies, Lindybeige! And I've missed this long-form lecture content. Bravo!

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Finally a lindybeige philosophy video! Waiting years for this one

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Only 5 minutes in and already learning more than the combined pearls of wisdom. This makes me happy.

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His explanation of Stoicism is probably the simplest I've seen/read so far. (edit: spelling)

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Started watching this dude from 2014. Definitely the world’s best storyteller, raconteur.

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Maybe... But Beau Miles is very close! ;⁠-⁠)

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I want a playlist of all Lindy 45 min+ videos to sleep to.

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Just watch his video about beds, that will do it.

[@Simon_Nonymous]

Thankyou, its so good to see you back! We have missed you. Really enjoyed this video, very very interesting, especially for my wife, who learnt alot !Please do more of this subject xx

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Amazing video! I could watch you talk about any subject for hours! Please keep making these!!!

[@joshuagarwood9733]

Amazing video. I've missed these long form ones!

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Lindy’s sweater game is unparalleled

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Wonder where he gets them?

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Great to see you back doing long videos again. An enjoyable and informative perspective as ever.

[@mikemorr100]

Ayy, Ive been watching past Lindy hour long videos to fall asleep, this week. This is great timing.

[@itai4ever16]

I am so happy to hear you in a long form video! I missed those a lot.

[@GinoLuccio]

Oooh shit, another long Lindy video! You sir, made the start of my early weekend a good one.

[@TheLuigiBrother77]

8:08 Aristotle didn't suggest they were smack in the middle. Cowardice for example was the vice, further away, foolhardiness was the anti-virtue, closer to the virtue, and courage the virtue

[@coreyblaisdell]

First off, I'm a long-time viewer and glad to see another long video. However, I have to say that this is a very old fashioned and wiggish version of the history of philosophy. I am by no means a Christian (agnostic bordering atheist), but the description of the impact of Christianity in this video completely leaves out the fact that almost all modern western moral values are based on ideas that are inherently Christian, even if modern atheists may prefer to call them "humanist." Of course, many bad ideas have also been justified through religion, but Christianity was the basis for abolishing slavery and for the general idea in the west that all people have inherent value. I recommend checking out the book "Dominion" by Tom Holland (an actual full-time historian) if you want a much more historically accurate view of the Christian impact on the evolution of western philosophy.

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True. I just thought it was too obvious. Neat that you picked it out.

[@GooglyEyedJoe]

Lindy has always had a chip on his shoulder about religion, it came to the surface in this video.

[@Arete1]

Lindy is just your typical snarky british materialist. That whole nation is epitomized by people like Bertrand Russell

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@@GooglyEyedJoe Religion is one thing. Knowing that Jesus Christ came to save him and accepting it is another.

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​@@myparceltape1169wdym know? I don't think you would be able to find an honest even very old fashioned Christian scholar like Thomas Aquinas claiming to KNOW that, you're supposed to believe, right?

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[@LeandroCapstick]

I thought Aquinas' main contribution was his study of Aristotle, not the stoics.

[@theangel666100]

Yeah I can't find any info about Thomas Aquinas bringing about the stoics online. Maybe he made a mistake here ?

[@yeetoburrito9972]

I haven't seen the whole video yet, but Aquinas is known for reconciling Aristotelian philosophy with Christian thought, I'm not sure about stoics, I've never heard anything about his connection with stoicism :)

[@philippugh9159]

That's correct. In fact, it was Augustine who Christianized the Stoics, along with Boethius who is best characterized as a Christian Stoic.

[@Ninja-Alinja]

20:09 Lloyd mentions Augustine, the Berber, condemning Stoics, and then suddenly brings up Thomas Aquinas and then a few minutes on he get to TA, he just got the two confused I think.

[@agbook2007]

This. Lloyd did surprisingly well overall but got into the weeds on this one.

[@jakobfredriksson2272]

Yes! I've missed a background full of pictures/stuff instead of books (for some reason). Now I'm going to watch the actual video.

[@belloreos1368]

Lindy, you're an eccentric man with an amazing beard who rambles confusingly for hours on end about a topic, often touching on the human element of that topic. You've always been a philosophy channel.

[@Alulim-Eridu]

I’ve incorporated the Delphic maxim “Know Thy Self” into one of my tattoos. But it’s written in an old Freemasonic script. So it just looks like part of the design of the rest of the tattoo

[@The_Opinion_of_Matt]

This video is the first of your's that I've watched with my headphones on. Just wanted to say that it has, by far, the best audio quality I've heard from any KZbin video. It sounds like you are in the room with me. It is so good that it confused me at first because it sounded like the audio was from the room I'm in and not from the headphones. I had my wife listen as well and she said, without prompting, that it sounded like you are in the room with us. My wife also loves your sweaters!

[@montgomeryday]

I am so glad that to have also discovered Stoicism. I am excited to hear more about what you have to say. Looking forward to it.

[@charlesporsbjer2416]

It's funny I never realized until now that the whole "Law of attraction" philosophy is pretty much an exact opposite of the stoic philosophy or even buddhist philosophy. AMAZING VIDEO NIKOLAS!

[@sststr]

Remembering self vs. experiencing self - when I did my Ironman, spectators put up all kinds of signs and write stuff on the street in chalk to encourage the athletes, and the one that stands out to me is "Pain is temporary, victory is forever!"

[@TheDigitalStoic]

"The purpose of life is happiness, which is achieved by virtue, living according to the dictates of reason, ethical and philosophical training, self-reflection, careful judgements and inner calm." - Zeno of Citium

[@godlaydying]

"Eudamonia" "No, _you_ da monia."

[@tomb7901]

LoL. Well, done! 😁

[@godlaydying]

@@tomb7901 Thanks!

[@More_Row]

Awesome video Lloyd. Well done for choosing the topic and going through and condensing it more succinctly from each of the actors you choose to talk about, It did give me some fleeting good feelings. Although my brain instantly trying to pull me back to my depressed anxious state. Noticing patterns or objectivity I feel you skipped a bit. But that can relate to stoicism in a way so i'm also excited for that. Cheers

[@jubuttib]

8:17 And that's even beyond the point of how would courage really be defined. I personally am a fan of the type of definition, that requires you to acknowledge the fear of something, and then overcome it. So in my scales it might even go closer to the shyness end.

[@brandoncaulfield9617]

Really appreciate the video lloyd! Amazing work as always

[@HanzoChop]

Lindybeige's left hand is quite the philosopher

[@markwilliams3679]

I’ve recently been getting into reading philosophy so this came out at a perfect time.

[@gireeshbogu8580]

I wish I had a teacher like this. So much fun and wisdom.

[@polartechie]

I am absolutely adding an Etheral entity with vacuum attack to the Campaign. Thank you Lindy

[@Woozy.0]

My heart has grown 3 sizes and my brain is purring like a chinchilla since this channel has returned. Thank you Lindy!

[@eliasabbas8450]

20:43 I think this is the first time I've ever seen you stumble and I used to watch you a lot years ago haha. Interesting video so far.

[@Jsi01]

Great! A nice long video. I rewatch each one at least 10 times and sometimes fall asleep to them, this is nice to mix it up. Thanks Lloyd.

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

I’ve always found philosophy interesting. Everything is obvious once it has been said/done/written. But until that point it was likely markedly less obvious. And in terms of what direct impact it has one one’s life, it has as much impact as you let it have.

[@evghb]

Especially ancient greek philosophy, and I find its larger implications more interesting from the perspective of Mazlow's pyramid. Like for the first time in history, to that point, some people had the means and free time to ponder the greater questions of life. 99.99999% of people were still worrying about farming and surviving, but the trend started to shift upward.

[@theeyehead3437]

"The Enlightenment was a British thing" is the most British thing I've ever heard

[@nicholasricardo8443]

Lloyd I do think you're disregarding an awful lot of philosophical ideas within Christianity that deal with epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, just within the context of Biblical exegesis and theological writings. I do agree that Augustine and Aquinas are probably the most important two Christians to cover, but there are a great many Catholic philosophers.

[@ThePhilosophicalLens1]

In this video, I sense a profound message about the philosophy of life, which is the balance between effort and letting go. This philosophy not only drives us to achieve our goals but also teaches us to enjoy the journey. It reminds us that, despite the challenges and difficulties life may bring, the key is to maintain inner peace and never lose sight of what truly matters. Sometimes, success doesn’t come from achieving everything we desire, but from the ability to accept and live harmoniously with what we have, while constantly growing as individuals each day

[@StergiosMekras]

~8:00 something to note here, that principle is often misquoted as "Pan Metron Ariston" (roughly translated as "measured in everything is best") but the original, if memory serves, is "Metron Ariston" ("measured is best"). It's not all encompassing, and it's not necessarily about finding the "middle".

[@robertnett9793]

~ 2:30 There is a point to note (and I don't know yet, if that comes up later): Initially t here were - as far as I know 4 scholarly disciplines, which later translated in 4 fields of study in early universities. Law, Religion, Medicine and Philosophy. The first three are pretty clear cut - Philosophy basically was 'everything else' So your mathematicians, alchemists, astronomers - all were philosophers, alongside people doing philosophical thought experiments. I do believe that the term 'nature philosopher' was used as a precursor to 'scientist' at least into the late 18th century. With things like the 'scientific methode' basically being a philosophy about how to know things.

[@sjdennis3]

A "PhD" is still technically a "Doctorate of Philosophy". However, they don't actually teach you any philosophy when you do one, modern PhDs are far too specialised to deserve the label Philosophy. It was true for generalist Renaissance scientists, but no longer true today. Sadly. We need a new prestigious degree that actually means that.

[@robertnett9793]

@@sjdennis3 I would say science is way to complex today to have a generalist scientist like in the Renaisance. The title is a remnant of that time, true - but going back there would be impossible

[@sjdennis3]

@@robertnett9793 Being a scientist myself, I disagree. I worked for years in a field of agricultural research where our express purpose was bringing together multiple strands of science and finding practical, economically viable solutions which improved farmers' wellbeing. The exact people we needed were those who have an overview of science - and they're the exact people which modern education does not intentionally produce. But can produce, they do exist, I've worked with such men and strive to be one myself. There is a clear need for specialists, I agree - and I also agree with you that no generalist can ever have complete knowledge of every specialty, there is too much to know to fit in one mind. But for the same reason, specialists do not themselves necessarily understand the full picture which their work fits into, and that is a serious problem. As a result, there will always be people directing the specialists what direction to go in - by controlling their funding for instance. Because we have few generalists, the overall direction of science is decided by non-scientists, particularly politicians and wealthy individuals, and that is a cause of many evils. There is a desperate need for the scientific generalist - the true philosopher of science - who would provide logical and scientific leadership. It would get us out of the rut we have fallen into, whereby politicians claim they're "following the science" but are referring to science that they have harnessed like a horse in front of them, and are "following" in the direction they themselves are steering, while ignoring all other science that may contradict it.

[@HostileMakeover]

My favorite is still Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic. His interactions with Alexander the Great are hilarious, and his trolling Plato is even better.

[@jdjones4825]

My all time favourite 😂😂😂

[@King.Leonidas]

sigma male

[@Dap1ssmonk]

The wtf fun fact of philosophers, said nothing of import and did nothing of use but he’s funny so we still need to hear about him.

[@niniv2706]

Looking fwd for the follow up to Stoicism ... Mr Beige that was a pleasant experience .

[@kmr8740]

Your delivery is dynamic, entertaining and informative. You're obviously very knowledgeable too. Great chronology of philosophers' views. 👏👏👏👏👏

[@TheIgnoramus]

IMO most important video you’ve ever made. Thank you for this entertaining compilation that took me half a decade to sparse out😂. The separation of memory and object experience is a prime question. The feedback of the body, vs the remembrance of the mind. Time perception. In my humble opinion. The Stoics resonate the most with me. If you assume you will always have ignorance within yourself; Stoicism, with a healthy dose of utilitarianism, humanism, and skepticism; A removal from the dichotomy of forced perception, seems the only answer to suffering/the inequality of placement of the individual. One must be able to objectively feel and accept their emotions/situation, as well as practice the opposite when necessary. Balance. Purpose in all things. Unity. The hole in the human heart, inherent separation, can only be filled by the experience of others.The human internal mind, can only heal through its own will, and acceptance of both suffering, and choice, but one can not reach correct conclusions without the other. The Oroborus. This could be expanded to the very analogy of the universe, but this ignoramus waxes poetic on this topic. I Look forward to the next video.

[@hubertbreidenbach]

The points at the end about fulfilment through crisis and kindness; they put the cherry on the cake of an excellent discussion.

[@40johnson87]

Crazy, I just started rewatching some of his old videos the other day and started reading Plato yesterday. Wild coincidence to see this get uploaded lol

[@ozelhassan8576]

I really enjoyed this and I like listening to what you have to say, usually I won’t watch a hour or more of a other content creators videos but yours always. I can’t wait for the next episode. Thanks very much. 👍👍✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

[@purshottamadevadhikar5035]

Lindy the enlightenment wasnt just "a british thing". Descartes and Kant were 2 of the enlightenments biggest thinkers. Surely England, France and Germany played pretty equal roles in the enlightment. Even italy contributed with thinkers like Beccaria.

[@dmk_games]

Fun fact: (maybe it will be mentioned in the video) - Socrates didn’t write stuff down. Most of the stuff attributed to him is from the works of Plato which used a character named Socrates (who was Plato's teacher). (And other stories starring socrates).

[@myparceltape1169]

The dialogues, pre-Windows.

[@1v966]

could have watched at least the first three minutes first bro

[@MrDowntemp0]

I am EAGERLY awaiting your deeper dive into the stoics

[@Alfenium]

Never trusting an agent sounds like sound advice actually.

[@Angry_People_Media]

Did he remove it?

[@trogdor8764]

@@Angry_People_MediaOnly watched a third of it, intended to finish it this morning but found that it was made private

[@Angry_People_Media]

@@trogdor8764 Similar thing happened to me, I was a little disappointed I couldn't finish it last night

[@cryhavocandletslipthedogso1873]

Apparently he privated it, for some reason we're not privy to. It's not like he owes us an explanation, but if you happen to read this, Mr. Lindy of the Beige, a one-liner would be appreciated

[@stadtbekanntertunichtgut]

Good summary Andy! Thanks a lot.

[@mikkel6938]

Great video Lindy! I do love a good talk on philosophy. Now I'm interested in hearing about your thoughts on eastern philosophy such as from hinduism and buddhism. I came to have somewhat of an understanding of these, mainly by listening to the late Alan Watts. I'm assuming you're aware of him, he has had a lot of great long audio files uploaded here on youtube. I suspect you hold a critical view of these types of mystical ideas, but also that you will see a lot of similar conclusions as to what stoicism gives us. Alan has a way of turning the mystical into something more practical I think. Cheers!

[@joezephyr]

Reading the titles at the end would have made me happy thank you

[@martinm3474]

Wonderfully shallow, great listening during supper of Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Gratitude for your style, it helps my balance of energy and I find some happiness within this.

[@rubenskiii]

Your poin about blame culture is quite interesting, it ties into something i am having a bit of trouble with in personal life. No parent is perfect, but some are very far removed from perfect. I had one of the latter. And in therapy it's about that a lot. It's weird because the blame is justified, but what then? It's something i had a lot of discussion about with my therapist. And what he said might be helpful for others: being able to pin why you do, think or feel certain things on someone's (past) behavior towards you is not so much about blame itself, but about understanding where your behavior comes from. It gives more understanding of the self. Being able to understand how the things are wired in your brain can give you a more objective (Stoic?) viewpoint on that. Knowing the root cause helps a lot with adressing problems. But before you can do that it is important to understand what has happened to you, and by who. Especially with people who you care about it can be easier to just point the blame inwards. Instead of understanding that you do a certain thing because in the past certain behavior by for example a parent made that the best reaction you just see yourself as a fool that can't be normal. And that obviously is detrimental to oneself. So a certain amount of blame when it's justified is good. As with almost all things it is about the measure of it and what you then do with it. Just blaming your parents for making you miserabele and then calling it a day is obviously not the answer. Blame is a tool, not a goal.

[@katyamohina6145]

Yes. And it is also about having emotional experience of it (rightful anger and blame that were denied to a person when they were a child, which essentially lead to their current traumatized condition). Shaming blame is stopping person in their first steps of recovery.

[@erichammer5502]

Glad to see the return of long form content as well! Thank you sir! I am a little surprised your history doesn't include David Hume or the great Adam Smith. Then again, if you are summarizing based on the book I am a lot less surprised; Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments is unknown to most philosophers, and David Hume is "improbably baroque" and thus rather hard for most of them.

[@ZestonN]

Lindy actually explained Stoicism better than most Stoic Channels. :)

[@michiganmafia]

For me, its the belief that the purpose of Life is whatever You want it to be, that helps me maintain happiness

[@donataspabreza]

About finding things that happened to you in the past, that would explain why you act and feel how you do. It can result in blaming and resentment, but it's not the point. When something happens to you that you can't understand why, you might have reacted in a way that makes you think of your self in a bad way and feel bad about your self and act according to how you feel about that old thing that happened to you. The point is to find in your self the ability to react to that as a grown person, not as a child - show healthy anger towards what happened to you instead of being resentful and sad about it. Instead of being a victim, that is a constructed personality shaped by what happened in the past, return to what you are underneath that construct. Ore something like that. Eckhart Tolle talks a lot about this and I wish this kind of philosophy was included in this video.

[@kerianhalcon3557]

How do you know my left foot is killing me?

[@yura2424]

43:49 That's interesting. How can equations be translated into music?

[@dechasrisen4783]

Faith, Hope, and Charity are 1 Cor 13. St Thomas wrote a lot about them, but he was explaining the NT verse when he did so.

[@christopherhancock9041]

thank you for pointing out a few names I may have overlooked. terrific video

[@murrayscott9546]

Like Einstein was actually quite a spiritual personal person but also rational and analytical. They aren't necessarily separated. One can be both.

[@VidkunQL]

The ideal of courage changed with the military technology. Before the invention of infantry formations (don't ask me for dates, I don't remember), an army won if every man attacked ferociously. Holding back might improve his personal chances of survival, but if all your soldiers hold back, your army will lose. And in those days, the poets and philosophers proclaimed that the great virtue was ferocious bravery with no regard for one's own safety. The invention of the Hoplite phalanx changed the game. A well-trained group of soldiers in formation could crush an equal number of soldiers attacking in a disorganised swarm, but only by holding formation. A formation could fall apart if even one soldier broke the line, either by turning and running away, _or by charging ahead to engage the enemy._ And the poets and philosophers of the day said the great virtue was the ability to keep a cool head and stand firm, unswayed by personal passions, no matter what the enemy does. I don't know whether the new philosophy spread because the philosophers were listening to the captains, or because the old-fashioned schools of philosophy had to shut down when the cities they had guided got sacked.

[@SpeakyDeak]

lindy cares about our happiness! that makes me happy, nice one, i''m gonna wear beige today.

[@el_wumberino]

I shall wait in stoic patience for your next video on philosophy.

[@mk-ki3jc]

This man is whats known as a "human encyclopedia." Us mere mortals could only hope to be so knowledgeable

[@answers_to_penguin]

The part you referred to as nonsense in the edit basically describes virtue ethics, which is also concerned with happiness in the sense of eudaimonia. The mark of an anglophone philosopher is being able to refer to Kant using the correct pronunciation with a straight face

[@Raz.C]

A stone-age philosopher left a stone tablet with the following profound philosophy scribed in stone: "Uggh blorg tanga blung! Glorbulang!! Torg glarfin..." I think there's something in that for all of us...

[@cuddlemuffin44]

The opportunity to wear an authentic, shiny suit of armor while philosophizing on happiness… was sadly missed.