Epictetus bluntly tells us that if we have not been affected by philosophy and have not changed our mind about something important as a result of it, we are simply playing a game. So, has philosophy changed your mind yet? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
To do philosophy means to reason and act correctly toward others. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
While wealth is a preferred indifferent, luxury is more problematic, from a Stoic perspective. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Musonius Rufus says that the combination of experience and self-control allow us to do what is right by others and ourselves. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Musonius Rufus contrasts the short duration of a shameful pleasure with the lingering regret that will follow. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
The philosopher’s school is a doctor’s office. You must leave not pleased, but pained, because you do not come in healthy. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
A rare glimpse into the life of young Epictetus, when he gets criticized by his teacher, Musonius Rufus. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Musonius Rufus clearly states how to implement the dichotomy of control in our lives. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Musonius Rufus reminds us that our most precious faculty is our ability to challenge impressions --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Musonius Rufus is confronted by a critic about what it means to live according to Zeus, or Nature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Words of advice and warning administered when a person’s emotions are at their height and boiling over, accomplish little or nothing. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
In order to protect ourselves we must live like doctors and be continually treating ourselves with reason. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Don’t expect to tell others what they should do when they know that you do what you shouldn’t. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
It is not proper for one to die who is helpful to many while he is alive, unless by dying he is helpful to more. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Choose to die well while you can; wait too long, and it might become impossible to do so. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
If we speak badly, we think badly, and we are more likely to act badly. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Musonius Rufus reminds us to be on guard concerning the effects that both pain and pleasure may have on our character. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Self-control, often referred to as the fourth cardinal virtue of temperance, is crucial to Stoicism and other philosophies of life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Musonius Rufus reminds us that we might have the same bad inclinations as other people, so we should start working on ourselves first. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Musonius Rufus reminds us that we can, and should, only live in the present. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
Captain JJ
awesome
Another Pilgrim
No providential cosmos? Just call yourself an Epicurean and be done with it.
Another Pilgrim
Ancient disagreement within the Stoic school isn't a sufficiently good reason for discarding two-thirds of the philosophy and retaining the same name.
Another Pilgrim
This is the kind of content I really enjoy from Dr. Pigliucci.
Ryan Carroll
His RSS feed must not be updating for a year-n-a-half: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/episodes/Ready-for-bad-stuff-to-happen--but-preferring-the-good-stuff-el952b