Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes | What Is Genuinely Good and What Is Not | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This core concept video focuses on Cicero's short work, the Stoic Paradoxes, and discusses the particular issue of what both Cicero and the Stoics take to be genuinely good. In their view, what other people value as good - in particular wealth, property, position, power, and pleasure are not genuinely good - and they provide arguments to establish that point.
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[@jhitchcock5503]

People often associate the word "Stoic" with "Boring. This talk is an interesting snapshot into why that view leaves out all of the Good that comes from having intentional control of your impulses. Having just finished studying Cognitive Psychology, I can state that science agrees with Cicero in what it takes to be a healthy and happy human, as well as, a positive force in the world. Great Talk!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, that's a core aspect to Stoic philosophy (as well as to other schools of virtue ethics) - getting some handle on one's desires, impulses, already established habits, etc. and then intentionally reworking them. . .

[@jhitchcock5503]

The Cognitive people like to see this as a new discovery on the part of science. Haha! As if, there were no great minds before us who could use reason to understand the world. In my opinion, which is also shared by some of the latest in neuroscience, the continuous practice of this sort of mindful, "virtuous" lifestyle is an effective way to lift our thinking and ourselves beyond our baser nature.

[@GregoryBSadler]

True, many of them do. Some of them acknowledge a debt to Epictetus in particular, but there isn't a lot of realization about the extent of virtue ethics more generally among them (with a few exceptions)

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[@christdiedforoursins8180]

Thank you I liked this , the bible dicribes this as righteousness, the good or true good, peace, patince longsuffring , honesty, truth, virtue,knowledge meekness, humility, love .kindness, forgiveness.mercy.justice.the true riches.the characteristics of god.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you enjoyed the video

[@kaylastrang5709]

is Cicero confident that one has the capacity to know what is just

[@GregoryBSadler]

Of course. Pretty much every ethicist is confident about that in general. Otherwise, there really wouldn't be much point in doing ethics, right?