Occasional reflections on the wisdom of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers with Prof. Massimo Pigliucci. Complete index by author and source at https://massimopigliucci.org/stoic-podcast/. (cover art by Marek Škrabák; original music by Ian Jolin-Rasmussen). Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support
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episode 415: 415. Are you conducting yourself virtuously in your profession?
Here is a basic Stoic equation: external thing or activity + virtue = good, while its opposite is: external thing or activity + vice = bad. So, is your profession good or bad, according to this approach?
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People think that externals are good, and then, after having won their wish, and suffered much, they find them evil, or empty, or less important than they had expected.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support413. Fortune, I ask no favors of you
Fortune sometimes favors villains and turns against good people. That's why our happiness should depend on our own decisions, not the vagaries of chance.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 412: 412. The playthings of children and the shackles of adults
External goods like fine clothing, gourmet food, and nice houses ought to be regarded as the playthings of children, not the shackles of adults.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/support411. The importance of not wasting time
Nature has not given us such a generous and free-handed space of time that we can have the leisure to waste any of it.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 410: 410. The value of money, beauty, and high social position
The Stoic concept of preferred and dispreferred indifferents always gets people confused or, the other common human response to lack of understanding, scoffing.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 409: 409. Rationalizing is not the same thing as reasoning
We are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefer to make excuses for them rather than shake them off. The reason is unwillingness, the excuse, inability.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 408: 408. How to tell whether you have achieved wisdom
Do you find yourself in the thralls of fear, jealousy, or anger? Do you act inconsistently in life? Then you ain't wise yet.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 407: 407. Negative emotions are diseases, they are not good even in small measure
One of the major differences between Stoics and Aristotelians has always been the treatment of disruptive emotions, such as anger and fear. They are helpful, in small measure, for Aristotle, but definitely to avoid for the Stoics.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 406: 406. The true value of things
We have become alternately merchants and merchandise, and we ask, not what a thing truly is, but what it costs.
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