Interesting - religion and the Stoics is an interesting area. We cannot simply put ourselves in the past an see stoics as scientific materialists. The connection between truth and beauty is often neglected - as shown by John Keats.
40:04 too bad those organizations were not created to bring common good, but rather to facade as such in order to accomplish the selfish acts and desires of a very few. Thanks for the lecture by the way, very much appreciated.
Yes! It's where people are able to delve deeply into the profundities of life for the benefit of the rest of us who aren't able to. Be greatful for these people as they make the world a far richer and more interesting place to exist. The work many of these academics do is objectively more important to humanity than 75% of what the rest of us do all day for money, that's for sure! I say this as an unlicensed plumber with no formal education who watches at least one lecture a day, on a wide variety of topics, for the simple benefits they'll deep knowledge bestows on me in my busy life.
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Great lecture from a wonderful professor. Hope we get more from him in the future!
Excellent lecture - thank you very much for posting
Amazing I could listen to him all day
Mary Beard doesn't like stoicism very much......I, however, love it.....this was a wonderful talk, by the way.
Very interesting. Joyful to listen to him.
The beauty of virtue. Nice call.
Monon to kalos agathon indeed.
nice lecture
Wow he's a great speaker as well as scholar
Def an o.g
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I like his quote from Berlin. I was just watching "Annie Get Your Gun" yesterday.
Interesting - religion and the Stoics is an interesting area. We cannot simply put ourselves in the past an see stoics as scientific materialists. The connection between truth and beauty is often neglected - as shown by John Keats.
34:25 >>>>>>
Johnny-boy looks good and revitilized
Sometimes the sound is better :/
40:04 too bad those organizations were not created to bring common good, but rather to facade as such in order to accomplish the selfish acts and desires of a very few.
Thanks for the lecture by the way, very much appreciated.
Basically : he's spent his whole life studying / writing about Stoicism..?!?
Hmm..? Isn't Academia amazing.?
Yes! It's where people are able to delve deeply into the profundities of life for the benefit of the rest of us who aren't able to. Be greatful for these people as they make the world a far richer and more interesting place to exist. The work many of these academics do is objectively more important to humanity than 75% of what the rest of us do all day for money, that's for sure! I say this as an unlicensed plumber with no formal education who watches at least one lecture a day, on a wide variety of topics, for the simple benefits they'll deep knowledge bestows on me in my busy life.
Bored