Stoic Ethics - The Good, The Bad, and The Indifferent | A 52 Living Ideas Meetup Talk
Vložit
- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Check out the Stoicism and the Cardinal Virtues 6-week online class - reasonio.teachable.com/p/stoi...
Request personal videos on Cameo - www.cameo.com/gregorybsadler
My Listenable Course: Basics of Stoic Philosophy and Practice - listenable.io/web/courses/440/
Support my work here - / sadler
Philosophy tutorials - reasonio.wordpress.com/tutori...
Check out the 52 Living Ideas Meetup - www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/
Take classes with me - reasonio.teachable.com/
This is the recording of my Stoic Saturday presentation to the 52 Living Ideas Meetup, focused on a central issue in Stoic Ethics.
Classic Stoic philosophy holds that there are some things that are definitely good - like moral virtue, virtuous actions, and genuine friendship - and there are some things that are definitely bad - for instance moral vice, vicious actions, and enmity or hatred.
And then there are a wide range of things that Stoics view as "indifferent" (adiaphoria) - and these include many things that others view as good or bad, like wealth and poverty, pain and pleasure, life and death, health and illness, and so on. They make it even more complicated in maintaining that some indifferents are "preferred", others are "rejected", and yet others are entirely indifferent.
In this talk, after going over the classic Stoic position, I also discuss how the cardinal virtues - wisdom, temperance, justice, and courage - bear upon indifferents, what the relationship is between indifferents and duties or appropriate actions (kathekon, officium), and how indifferents are supposed to be "used" or "dealt with" (khresis). I then answer a number of questions from the audience members.
#Stoicism #ethics #philosophy
6:38 Sadler suggests books/authors to learn what Stoics believed:
- Diogenes Laërtius - Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (Book 7)
- Arius Didymus - Epitome of Stoic Ethics
- Cicero - On Ends; On Duties; On Tuscan Disputations
- Seneca [the Younger]
- Epictetus
- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (a less systematic work)
Thank you prof. Saddler!
You're welcome!
Thanking you Dr. Sadler.
29:10 Stoicists on virtue
36:30 Well I don't know how you are indifferent to coffee, or how you choose to light your scene.
You're very welcome!
hi iam your seldom viewer . ilike to share my gradtude from your recomdation to book of philosophy in desert island . i loved it . i chose plato , hegel heideger n murice blondel ,,, hegel n blondel wrere by far the best i have read .i dont think anything else can top those two ..so thank u for your sugestion
You're very welcome
I learn much from this great teacher in CZcams, finally I can make a brand new system of philosophy, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika @subcribe
Why make a brand new system?
@@GregoryBSadlerOther systems fail, I'd like to introduce the world, this new system of philosophy next month in my channel, not in Bahasa but in English of course. Thank you very much, sir