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The ancient Stoics based their morals on reason. They created an ethical system that focuses on living in agreement with nature, or, a universal rational principle. Stoic ethics distinguish virtues from vices, seeing a life of virtue as the optimal way to live. From the Stoic point of view, someone who lives a life of vice can be considered a degenerate.
This video explores a couple of examples from Stoic literature on how the ancient Stoics saw degeneracy or, put differently, a bad and sub-par way of life leading to unhappiness.
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00:00 - Intro
02:30 - Living in agreement with Zeus
04:01 - Fighting fate
05:50 - The man who cheated
07:54 - Laying in bed all day
09:46 - Sickly pale of lust