Epictetus, Discourses | About Cynicism | Philosophy Core Concepts

[@88pampa]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos

[@luizclaudio6724]

Ethos, Pathos and Logos at the beggining of each session Thanks Gregory Great lectures as most of them!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad you enjoy them

[@amaliabaikie7340]

Wow, I too have no emotional connection to my family and wish not to bear children! And truthfully who doesn't love hugging statues during winter amirite?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Can't say that any of that applies to me. . .

[@DerogatoryMess]

Not a culturally popular statement. I loathe your independence. I say as I honor it You, have provided an archetype!

[@sojourn-gv4ue]

Excellent lecture, Dr. Sadler!¡

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks

[@MrMarktrumble]

Thank you very much again.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome

[@joeybrujah]

First of all, greetings from Brazil. Thank you VERY much for your classes. It's helping me a lot in my research, my curiosity and my life. I'd love to see you talk more about Cynicism. I have one question for you. How do you deal with different points of view? You know that the stoics are against the pleasure life that Epicurus proposes. In the same time you know that in order to Camus to make sense you have to think as an atheist but, if you're studying Kierkegaard, there's no way to doing without a god. I find myself in that place for time to time. There are completely opposites ideas that I really like and I agree with both. Is that wrong? What's a philosopher's way to deal with that?

[@GregoryBSadler]

When I'm presenting a point of view, I do my best to enter into it imaginatively, to understand it in its own terms. What I do on my own account is draw upon those perspectives I find most persuasive, and can be in a kind of dialogue with, and then work out my own synthesis. Sometimes, this means changing my point of view over time

[@davegcomedy1267]

Thank you for this explanation. I just read the “On Cynicism” part of Discourses and I thought he was being sarcastic

[@GregoryBSadler]

You thought the entire long chapter was sarcasm?

[@GregoryBSadler]

You thought the entire long chapter was sarcasm?

[@MrMarktrumble]

thank you very much.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome!

[@nonamehere-y2t]

Take it from me as a cynic, public hatred is a leviathan but I must keep to my obligations.

[@GregoryBSadler]

I don't think I''ll take anything from a self-proclaimed "cynic"

[@DrKarrarLab]

Great delivered lecture

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@mindseyelynx9738]

I just wish you had a better mic for recording, it's not bad, but something like the Blue Yeti with a foam cover on it. or Blue Snowball

[@GregoryBSadler]

+Mindseye Lynx Why yes, I'd love for you to send me one. Thanks for volunteering to help me improve the videos I provide for free. Write me at [e-mail] and we'll work out the details

[@konev13thebeast]

If the quality of mic bothers you, then I would recommend learning about and practicing stoicism

[@tonygolledge7906]

The Ascetic life , will either make you or break you.

[@GregoryBSadler]

Provided one even has it right to begin with

[@rwheels6471]

There can be only one Diogenes

[@GregoryBSadler]

One is enough