Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

[@GetMoGaming]

I love your logic and philosophy vids Dave, KEEP IT UP MAN!

[@waelfadlallah8939]

I also remembered when you were asked if you believe that we have free will. Your answer was a philosophical one! And so accurate, that i completely agree. It's something will remain inconclusive no matter what but if i were to speak my mind i would say that i strongly believe everything in life since its very beginning is mapped, designed and architectured by a higher power so that no one or event (no matter how big or powerful) will have the capability to deviate it from its pre-scheduled trajectory.

[@mariasideri1974]

as a Greek, I'm so happy you used the word hellenistic and not greek:)

[@waelfadlallah8939]

Little they know (these Greek great minds) that they would pave the road to the modern world we live in and thanks to them so many scientific advancement has been achieved!

[@karamhaikhudaka]

Very clear, concise and well presented as always! Great video! 💯

[@phillipchavez1321]

📝 1:51-1:56 philosophy…a way of living 3:58-4:08 living on the search of absolute knowledge =x(not) happiness 4:35-4:59 the search for absolute truths of reality due to anxieties of the mind

[@AndyRhodes1]

Great video! One small correction: Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380 CE, not 313 CE. Emperor Constantine made Christinianity legal in 313. Emperor Theodosius made Nicene Christianity the official religion in 380. Khan Academy notes: In 313 CE, the emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which granted Christianity-as well as most other religions-legal status. While this was an important development in the history of Christianity, it was not a total replacement of traditional Roman beliefs with Christianity. In 325, Constantine called the Council of Nicaea, which was a gathering of Christian leaders to determine the formal-or orthodox-beliefs of Christianity. The result of this council was the Nicene Creed, which laid out the agreed upon beliefs of the council. In 380 CE, the emperor Theodosius issued the Edict of Thessalonica, which made Christianity, specifically Nicene Christianity, the official religion of the Roman Empire. Most other Christian sects were deemed heretical, lost their legal status, and had their properties confiscated by the Roman state.

[@BeardedMan8319]

I think that the fact that Stoics had a philosophy so similar to the one of Buddhists is pretty interesting.

[@letsomethingshine]

King Ashoka is said to have sent Buddhist emissaries all the way into Greece back then. Human culture seems to bear greatest influence geographically based on movements of influential people.

[@gerwsgse]

@@letsomethingshineinteresting.

[@gerwsgse]

@@letsomethingshinealso the Greeks who came to north India and are still there today

[@gerwsgse]

Have you read much on sikhism?

[@BeardedMan8319]

@@gerwsgse No I have not, but googling it I find that it started in 1500 CE, making it irrelevant to Stoic times.

[@seanh4841]

I'm always amazed at the range of topics you cover

[@Jmak-rl6oi]

Ain't hard to cover a topic reading from a script.

[@seanh4841]

@@Jmak-rl6oi Silly fool

[@Jmak-rl6oi]

@@seanh4841 Thanks for your input. I hope your day will continue in a better manner, be strong buddy. Much love

[@seanh4841]

@@Jmak-rl6oi The Sun will always rise

[@kristenmgr]

I was thinking about this today. Tysm !!!

[@waelfadlallah8939]

What are the odds!

[@TundeEszlari]

Brilliant and informative content. :)

[@evanns1234567]

I admire your devotion to science ! Please, do a series about abiogenesis, explain step by step how it works... )

[@letsomethingshine]

Abiogeny, not abiogenesis. The words should not be mixing the way the religious and unaware are forcing them to. Abiogenesis is described in the book called Genesis (as well of Prometheus creating the first man on orders of Zues and also the gods-of-Zeus (theos) creating the first women, pandora, to keep that man down.

[@evanns1234567]

@@letsomethingshine thank you !

[@_Omega_Weapon]

​@@letsomethingshineAbiogenesis described *in* the book of Genesis?? I don't think so.

[@granthurlburt4062]

This is so important for our modern world. It simply wouldnt exist without the Hellenic Philosophers. It would be great if you covered science in Cairo and Baghdad (before it was suppressed around 1100 or 1200 AD by the same type of religious conservatism that shut down philosophical endeavour in Alexandria in the the name of the official Christianity inaugurated by Constantine

[@JHCP2004]

Such an enlightening video!

[@infinitum8558]

The only thing I'd add is that Stoics believed that everything is fated, so that's a big factor as to why they became indifferent to everything. They can't change fate, so they learn to not care about their fate.

[@chaueter1041]

After watching big chunks (on and off) of your debate with the creationist chemist, I’ve become ever more fascinated watching magic believers add chunks of sciencey language, add a dash of “skeptical” thinking, twist it again, and delude themselves into believing that they are scientific. It’s both relieving and depressing to see that this has been going on for centuries as we Homo Sapiens inch further into that ever elusive thing that we call knowledge. Thanks Dave.

[@user-vq3lk]

I am intrigued! Can you please elaborate?

[@_Omega_Weapon]

​@@user-vq3lkWatch Dave's 4 part series about and his full debate with James Tour.

[@ianlee5812]

Have you thought about doing a series on using computational chemistry software like GAMESS or ORCA?

[@user-vq3lk]

Oh this would be just awesome 😎😎😎😎

[@ThePathOfEudaimonia]

I love more (practical) philosophy! Especially Stoicism, Zen Buddhism, and Taoism. Thanks for all the education, brother.

[@LPVince94]

Practical philosophy isn't really practical in the way the term "practical" is commonly understood. It pretty much just means that this is the branch of philosophy that studies the human practice (praxis). So you're technically correct in calling the schools of thought you listed practical philosophy. But I disagree in the sense that I do believe that they're not practical as the word is commonly understood. They can offer helpfull advice in certain situations sure but the fundament they're built on presupposes some false assumptions and that leads inevitably to some false conclusions.

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[@JaromEubanks]

Epicurus is the greatest dead philosopher!!

[@granthurlburt4062]

Notice how the philosophers definition of "Happiness" is very like what was in the Declaration of Independence. It i is not our commonly accepted one of being continually cheerful and joyful and having a good time, which is more like that of the Epicureans.

[@georgemissailidis3160]

11:04 not sure if this is an AI image, but damn those are some weird fingers

[@phillosophy3925]

PD, Can you please do a video about The Schuman Resonance? TY

[@Lucas-yf1es]

Hey Dave, i was looking through youtube and i found a KZbinr called Inspiring Philosophy, he made some vídeos claiming that Quantum physics proves a soul, do you have any thoughts on that?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

It does not.

[@Lucas-yf1es]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains I though the same thing, although some of his claims are similar to other Quantum Mysticists he cites far more cherrypicked articles to try to make the point that it's likely that Christian supernatural claims are true. If you ever want to make another debunking video, his digital physics argument would be an interesting choice

[@gontlemanggeneral-segolodi5222]

The earth travels around the sun, at a speed of 107000 km/hr. Any object that is dropped above ground, from a place that is facing the direction of earth's path (front), will reach a higher maximum velocity than one dropped from a place at the back of the earth.

[@HT.100]

I guess stoicism won out in the end since that has had the greatest enduring quality

[@robinpage2730]

I think there's some valid ideas in all the classical philosophies.

[@granthurlburt4062]

Gosh!

[@fruitylerlups530]

i hope when you get to more modern philosophers you focus on their epistemological frameworks and not their political/moral philosophy so much, focusing on Kant and Humes Epistemological challenges, and especially Marx's historical materialism and not his politics. People get too hung up on the political prescriptions of thinkers because they are looking for political validation and not their ways of thinking.

[@DinorwicSongwriter]

Im gonna like this video before I watch it!

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[@Marine_Veteran_Vegan_Gamer]

You teach me so good, Daddy! 😂

[@waelfadlallah8939]

Bruh?!

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​@@waelfadlallah8939 Breh!

[@artophile7777]

I like the spirit!

[@Pan-demic]

10:58 The Middle Ages weren’t any more religious than its preceding era There was no such thing as a religion-secular divide as the divine was intimately connected with the physical world. So a world in which the duty of magistrates is to honor the gods, where prayers are dealt to ancestors daily, (1) and Neo-Platonists using theurgy and magic to influence the world (one of the things this video gets wrong is the “empirical” nature of Neoplatonism. No ancient philosophy was empirical - and Neo-Platonism was a very diverse school which Tim O’Neill in the article on the myth of the library of Alexandria covers this in great detail) (2) (3) “Neoplatonism developed out of Plato’s tradition of Greek philosophy in the third century AD, based largely on the teachings of Plotinus (c. 204-270 AD). It was to have a long history and undergo many branchings and changes over the centuries, including becoming highly influential on Christian thought to the extent that it formed something of a philosophical foundation for early Christianity. It is not hard to see why. Plotinus developed Plato’s theory of eternal forms into a complex metaphysical system whereby there were three eternal cosmic principles underlying all reality: “the One”, “the Intellect” and “the Soul”. In this system, the ultimate principle from which everything else proceeds is “the One”, also called “the Good” or “the Father”, which is utterly transcendent, beyond all being and non-being and “prior to all existents”. Other principles emanate from “the One”, the first of which is “the Intellect” or more properly “Nous”, which is the highest sphere accessible to the human mind. It is both the perfect image of “the One” and also the archetype of all existing things. Emanating from “the Intellect” is the “World Soul”, which stands between the “the Intellect” and the material and phenomenological world. It also embraces and includes all individual souls, which by study and contemplation can, via the “World Soul”, be informed by “the Intellect” and so attain enlightenment with the infinite “One”. Those who do not do this lose themselves in the material world and the finite and so are never happy or fulfilled in the way the philosophically enlightened are. The Neoplatonic hierarchy This rather mystical system bears some resemblance to Indian philosophy and certainly lent itself to religious ideas. On one hand it was developed in the third to fourth century by Iamblicus (c. 245- c. 325 AD) into an intensely ritualised system whereby ceremonies, hymns, magical formulae and devotion to the gods helped mediate between the believer and the transcendent cosmic principles. At around the same time Christian thinkers found Neoplatonism’s three cosmic principles highly compatible with their theological ideas about the Trinity and the theme of the contrast between the spiritual and the material world. This is why we find several Christians among Hypatia’s students, including at least two future bishops.” (4) Often, people too sharply emphasize the break in content from philosophy in the ancient to medieval periods. Christians who valued classical learning for its own sake won the debate, and Christian theology had absorbed the study of the classics and the schools of the east in places like Alexandria, Constantinople, and Antioch continued undisturbed. (5) Scholars now note just how similar pagan and Christian Romans were pretty much every respect: (6) (7) “Serious people - philosophers, intellectuals, theologians of whatever stripe - now viewed all religious practice from a loftier plane. Porphyry and Iamblichus did as much to weaken traditional practices as did Constantine and Constantius. (6, p. 178)” “[Augustine] might easily have decided that all pagan Platonism was itself inextricably tied to polytheism, but he seems, rather, to have concluded that there was strictly monotheistic, proto-Christian gold to be found in the pagan writings, hidden but not essentially corrupted.” (9, p. 27) So, the main reason for the loss of much classical learning was the decrease in elite literacy of Greek and the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the disintegration of the educational structures with it, leaving churchmen to pick up the pieces. (9) Bibliography: The Invention of the Individual, Larry Siedentop, 2014 (1) The Great Myths - 5: Library of Alexandria, History for Atheists (2) THE CLOSING OF THE ATHENIAN ACADEMY, History for Atheists (3) THE GREAT MYTHS 9: HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA, History for Atheists (4) REVIEW - CATHERINE NIXEY “THE DARKENING AGE”, History for Atheists (5) James J. O’Donnell’s Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity (HarperCollins, 2015 (6) Edward J. Watts’ The Final Pagan Generation (7) Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz, Princeton, 2015 (8) THE GREAT MYTHS 8: THE LOSS OF ANCIENT LEARNING, History for Atheists (9)

[@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος]

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[@zoranocokoljic8927]

They told him: "Go west young man", but Alexander stubornly went EAST.

[@ScottDCS]

Becoming a practicing Stoic saved my life.

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[@-JA-]

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[@TheMcEwens419]

It is interesting that all of this uses logic, but some don't use logic!😮

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[@waelfadlallah8939]

Don Christie ?

[@PharaohRamessesOsymandias]

This is a great video. Although to me, there’s just one small nitpick: When talking of Alexander the Great, you state “his expeditions to the Middle West.” He conquered the Middle East. It’s a small error but it is one to note.

[@letsomethingshine]

expedition does not imply failure. And Arabia is also part of the middle east and he felt no need to get taxes from the people south of the dessert.

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[@orion1816]

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[@freddan6fly]

" the hollow-flat earth is the correct model." Don't think so. Got evidence?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Stop trolling.

[@drchrisfiorentino1936]

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