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 432: 432. Stoicism is not good for consumerism
How many things are superfluous; we merely used them not because we needed them, but because we had them. How much do we acquire simply because our neighbors have acquired such things, or because most people possess them!
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 433: 433. Bad thoughts are like catchy tunes
Just like a catchy tune won't leave your mind easily, once it has gained access, so with thoughts of unvirtuous actions. So don't grant them entrance in the first place.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 434: 434. Stoics vs Epicureans
Avoiding pain and seeking pleasure comes natural to human beings. But, so argue the Stoics, being prosocial is even more fundamental to our nature as social animals.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 435: 435. That which is according to nature is the beginning of the good
And what is this Good? I shall tell you: it is a free mind, an upright mind, subjecting other things to itself and itself to nothing.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 437: 437. Gods or atoms, you should blame no one
Blame is not a Stoic thing. We bear responsibility for what we do, of course, but to blame people isn’t particularly useful. As Marcus Aurelius says, teach them, if you can, or bear with them.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 438: 438. The consolations of philosophy
Cicero begins his treatise Academica by seeking a medicine for his sorrows in philosophy.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 439: 439. The importance of Socrates
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 440: 440. What Zeno said
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 441: 441. Four interesting Stoic doctrines
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 442: 442. Stoic materialism
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.
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