Stoic Epistemology

This video is about the epistemology of Stoicism.

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What is the book being used here? I will recheck the video, but will use it as reference.

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The Hellenistic Philosophers, edited by Long and Sedley

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I was reading the human chromosomes have 3 billion base pairs, and who knows how many trillions of actions our body performs internally each day. When one thinks of all the complexity and details entailing life, and then only to have a thought such as "me good, you bad", one realizes the weakness of thought, and despite the potential power and eloquence of language, how feeble language is in daily life. Our 'rationality' is very small compared to all the automated and instinctual occurring within us and defining us.

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The concept of trying to make sense of things is almost a superstition in its own way. We make a god to explain things, and we make science to explain things, yet neither is describing an actual thing, just a conceptual model. Neither can save us as neither is real, but they can point to what is real, and put conceptual boundaries on it. Science points to practical utility and conceptions of god point to the need to embrace a reality and ontology beyond what science can inform us about. Therefore, the belief that rationality has the answers is akin to believing that god has the answers.