Stoic Meditations

Aristo of Chios disagreed with the founder of Stoicism, Zeno of Citium, in pretty fundamental ways. A powerful reminder that Stoic philosophy isn't written in stone, and never was.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The basic Stoic psychological account of our desires and actions is a powerful guide to willfully change our behavior for the better.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Let's learn why the middle-Stoic Panaetius disagreed on a major point of "physics" with the early Stoics: he didn't believe in divination!--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The Academic Skeptics were one of the major rival schools to Stoicism. Yet, on the nature of human knowledge, and on what it means in practice, for everyday living, the two philosophies were not very far apart.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

If you have some sand and you start adding grains, when do you have a heap? Chrysippus' answer to this sort of paradox will leave logicians frustrated and the rest of us with something to think about.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The wisest approach is to not commit to opinions until we have strong evidence in their favor, or to hold opinions very lightly, and not attach our ego to them.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The Stoics are materialists, in the sense that they believe that anything that has causal powers must be made of stuff, whatever that stuff turns out to be.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Virtue can only be perfected by reason; all virtues are really just one, namely, wisdom; virtue is intrinsically good; and one needs to continuously practice in order to be virtuous.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic sect, says that there are three sets of things in the world: virtue, things according or contra to nature, and neutral things. From which a solid moral compass for everyday living follows.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Socrates was the first to draw philosophy away from matters of an abstruse character, in which all the philosophers before his time had been wholly occupied, and to have diverted it to the objects of ordinary life.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support