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 421: 421. The analogy between physical and mental health
The Stoics understood what bodily health is, and from that they deduced the existence of a certain mental health also. They knew about bodily strength, and from that they inferred the existence of mental sturdiness.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 422: 422. Of friendship, dogs, and meat thrown in the middle
No doubt you have seen dogs playing with, and fawning before, each other, and thought, ‘Nothing could be friendlier.’ But just throw some meat in the middle, and then you’ll know what friendship amounts to.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 424: 424. What the virtues are for
Desires have to be reined in, fear to be suppressed, proper actions to be arranged, debts to be paid; we therefore include self-restraint, bravery, prudence, and justice among the virtues – assigning to each quality its special function.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 425: 425. Ethics and human nature
Philosophers have debated for millennia the nature of ethics. Is it arbitrary? Or are there universal moral laws that we can apprehend through reason? Neither, say the Stoics. Theirs is a thoroughly naturalistic philosophy.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 426: 426. The balance between inner and outer resources
How do we strike a good balance between cultivating externals, like wealth, and focusing on the improvement of our own character? Different philosophical schools gave different answers to this question.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 427: 427. A simple way to go right, many ways to go wrong
It's relatively easy to stay on the right track by following simple methods, but there are countless ways to go wrong if we don't pay attention. Here are three basic rules from Stoic philosophy to keep your life on the right track.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 428: 428. Anger is a self inflicted wound
Nothing need provoke our anger if we do not add to our pile of troubles by getting angry.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 429: 429. Everything tastes good if you are hungry
“Bad bread!” you say. But just wait for it; it will become good. Hunger will make even such bread delicate and of the finest flavor. And the same goes for any other external thing, whether a necessity or a luxury.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 430: 430. The right attitude about the world
To have whatsoever they wish is not in people's power; it is in their power not to wish for what they have not, but cheerfully to employ what comes to them.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 431: 431. How to tell a Stoic
Finding yourself at a party and want to know if someone else is practicing Stoicism? Ask them what they think is the chief good and the chief bad.
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