Peter Adamson discusses the philosophy of Epictetus.
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@anastasiaanastasia12093 жыл бұрын
Epictetus had a special scorn for those who “merely tremble and mourn and seek to escape misfortune.” “Zeus” he cries out at one point. “Send me what trial thou wilt! For I have endowments and resources, given to me by thee, to give myself honor through what befalls!” ...to give myself honor through what befalls 🙏
@Nathan-ls4xt Жыл бұрын
This channel is massively underrated
@CarlosRivera-bp8wp8 жыл бұрын
I believe this is a great lecture in Epictetus. So please even enemy's can respect each other, there is no need for insults. He did a wonderful job to portrait him i believe. By the way I am a philosophy major and Im doing research on the stoics as of now. This video was really helpful. Thanks for your effort!
@kianopin43576 жыл бұрын
Lol, philosophy majors.
@clermeil5 жыл бұрын
But sometimes a insightful and cutting insult is soooooooooooooooooooo satisfying and makes the victim stronger.
@facesmasher42166 жыл бұрын
intetesting lecture, specially that covering free will and virtue. thank you
@jumo58932 жыл бұрын
This is what the internet is for!!
@nething94 Жыл бұрын
Great lecture! Stoicism is the best
@danielcarrillo65045 жыл бұрын
Don't tell people your plans or ideas they may just be saying to themselves wow that sounds like something I can interfere with.
@danielcarrillo65045 жыл бұрын
If it's a perception it's most likely a reality.
@cesarflores27443 жыл бұрын
Thanks for teaching me about Epictetus.
@MatoNupai2 жыл бұрын
The recoded discourses and The Enchiridion is all you need to be a good Stoic. I put Epictetus higher than Aristotle or Plato
@michaelpurcell413410 ай бұрын
I am listening and listen so good
@cehinton6 жыл бұрын
This was awesome! Great style. I'm off to go listen to your Marcus Aurelius now!
@Monadshavenowindows11 жыл бұрын
You're definitely right about the stoic influence on Spinoza. There's a recent book that I haven't taken the time to get my hands on yet called 'Spinoza and the Stoics: Power, Politics and the Passions' by Firmin DeBrabander. It's on my 'to-read list' though.
@googleuser31738 жыл бұрын
What is the music used for the lead-in? Would appreciate any information, thanks.
@angelohieronymous26923 жыл бұрын
Darude - Sandstorm
@Shubham-ww5zd6 жыл бұрын
Good stuff
@adeel2bad11 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@biomechanizm8 жыл бұрын
Is that a drawing of Epictetus writing in a book? I thought he didn't write anything down.
@MrJoeyBoombotz7 жыл бұрын
No it is Moses.
@MatoNupai2 жыл бұрын
Correct. Epictetus never recorded his discourses or his book The Enchiridion
@jeffsmith6732 жыл бұрын
Epictetus loved to play Croquet (apparently).
@MatoNupai2 жыл бұрын
No that was his crutch. He was a slave and his owner flew into a rage breaking his leg and he was lame for the rest of his life
@williamwheeler37829 жыл бұрын
and that is how the cookie crumbles
@samuelmcaleer97208 жыл бұрын
+William Wheeler this is the strangest comment I will ever see for I do believe the cookie will always crumble. There was never any surplus of cookies. You desire to lose the cookie because it's purpose never was beneficial.
@yuvalyehezkel55583 жыл бұрын
If, for example, you are fond of a specific cookie, remind yourself that it is only cookies in general of which you are fond. Then, if it crumbles, you will not be disturbed.
@zendertaker11 жыл бұрын
I appreciate Epictetus' thought, Spinoza seems to be heavily inspired. I hate sartre
@facesmasher42165 жыл бұрын
zendertaker - sartre is a wanna be philosopher as we understand
@idk88563 жыл бұрын
hey wow whats so bad about satre?
@MatoNupai2 жыл бұрын
The person in this podcast is incorrect. Some of the discourses of Musonius Rufus were recorded and survives. I know because I recently read The discourses of Musonious Rufus. However Epictetus is my favorite philosopher.
@shadowheart5210 жыл бұрын
I'm a little confused about how you use "choice". If I'm thrown into prison my choices become very narrow. They are affected by my situation. You make it seem as if externals have no affect on choice whatsover, and that's simply not the case. What I think Epictetus is saying is we can choose to accept things beyond our control, so if the Emperor throws me into prison I can choose not to be dismayed by that simply by accepting my fate. The Emperor has no control over my attitude, merely where he places my body, or if he removes my head. So be it. Your call Mr. Emperor. I'm perfectly fine with whatever you decide. It's your call, not mine, so I won't waste any of my time bickering about it. That's how I see "choice" in the context Epictetus means it.
@MrFreakboymccarthy10 жыл бұрын
Externals have 'instrumental value' for Epictetus such that you can choose to use them wisely and virtuously, or not. That is, there is NO situation where external goods are not around. Externals do not have 'an affect', because it is 'up to you' how you use them. The key for Epictetus is to live as a virtuous person so that good choices become habitual. The workings of your body, for example, is always present but can (a) elude your control, such as when you get ill or tortured (look up Epictetus student Admiral James Bond Stockdale and his time as a POW), and (b) the working of your body doesn't determine your choices concerning virtue. You can be ill and choose to perform virtuous deeds, and healthy and choose to perform vicious deeds. "The hypothetical proposition is indifferent: the judgment about it is not indifferent, but it is either knowledge or opinion or error. Thus life is indifferent: the use is not indifferent." (Epictetus, Discourses). Having a life is indifferent (is not up to you), but what you do IN life is not indifferent (it is up to you)
@JamesOsyris6 жыл бұрын
Our choices are up to us. We always have some sort of choice. It doesn't mean we have every choice there can be.
@dollarcostbackpacker12266 жыл бұрын
Still have choice, even though it is "narrowed" not much diffrent than not being able to choose your skin color parents or reality we are born into.
@seansmith54684 жыл бұрын
10:04
@Monadshavenowindows11 жыл бұрын
Jean-Paul Sartre is also a slave.
@emiliaanton6897 Жыл бұрын
All philosophy somehow seems unfinished. Perhaps because we don't yet understand what love and wisdom actually are.
@darioplant80298 жыл бұрын
Academic pronunciation - every single letter of a word is "pronounced" until the tone of the voice is possible - gives the creeps.
@velociraptor684 жыл бұрын
I like this guy, but he does tend to drone on.
@omidreyhani10 жыл бұрын
Meta programming.
@JamesOsyris6 жыл бұрын
Charles Manson said many things similar to this
@viciousvictory63806 жыл бұрын
Pik Osyris show me links. I have searched for proof of this and it is pointing to none of what you wrote.
@jaredprince47725 жыл бұрын
It's better to learn positive things from honorable men than learn what to not do from those without honor.
@facesmasher42165 жыл бұрын
Vicious Victory - if you truly a philosopher you must know the answer to your inquire by now it's not what you see but what you see is not
@facesmasher42165 жыл бұрын
Jared Prince - what is to be honorable for you?
@jaredprince47725 жыл бұрын
+stumpunk pumpin Charles Manson is not. You define for yourself using some common sense and I will define for myself, not for you, accordingly.
@xwsftassell11 жыл бұрын
I think about the last thing I want do is to listen to Kermit The Frog talking about Epictetus.
@jaredprince47725 жыл бұрын
Kermit is an honorable frog and there is none better to listen to. It is not Kermit's fault that he is a frog. He accepts it and is the best frog he can be. If you are a frog, you too should be the best frog you can be.
@facesmasher42165 жыл бұрын
who knows, he may say something usuable as you did so
@ravenshireful10 жыл бұрын
"Condemned to be free" is a phrase only a wealthy idiot could spout.
@Game7Mode6 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahaha truth
@facesmasher42165 жыл бұрын
ravenshireful - correct; it's idiosyncracy at its maximun iow, a brainwash
@robertpoen53835 жыл бұрын
Uses terms like free will, stoicism, ethics, logic, physics and flings them all about willy nilly with no structure or context or even a definition of the terms being employed. In other words, a mess.
@user-kt9jy6kx7d2 жыл бұрын
Hahaaahaha true dattt
@velociraptor684 жыл бұрын
It's okay. I still like those Canadians better, but this dude is on the same tamale.