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 443: 443. Ignorance, knowledge, and things in between
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 444: 444. Chrysippus and the logic of paradoxes
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 445: 445. Skeptics vs Stoics
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 446: 446. Panaetius, the dissident Stoic
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 447: 447. Always challenge your impressions
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 448: 448. Aristo, the Stoic dissenter
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://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 449: 449. Chrysippus on the various philosophies of life
According to Chrysippus, when it's all said and done, there are only three conceptions of the chief good for human beings.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 457: 457. No regrets, only thankfulness
Everything we think we have is actually on loan from the universe, so to speak, and we need to be ready to give it back whenever the universe recalls the loan, no matter in what form it does it.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 458: 458. Which is the better lot, to be happy for a short time or not at all?
Seneca reminds his friend Marcia, who had lost a son a couple of years later, that it is better to be thankful for what she had, rather than resentful for what she has lost.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stoicmeditations/supportepisode 459: 459. Women are just as capable as men of achieving eudaimonia
Believe me -- says Seneca to Marcia -- [women] have the same intellectual power as men, and the same capacity for honorable and generous action.
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