Stoicism, Fortitude, Failing, and Failure | A Workshop With Gregory B. Sadler at The Stoa
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This is the videorecording of an online presentation followed by discussion and Q&A on the topic of Stoicism, the virtue of fortitude or courage, and how it helps us deal with our own and other people's failings and failures. It was hosted by the online space, The Stoa, which you can find here - www.thestoa.ca/
In any mode or path of intentional living, experiences of failures are common, and often lead us to discover deeper failings within ourselves. People often try to use coping strategies to deal with and dent failures and failings, but those are unlikely to genuinely help us. Stoic philosophy and practice offer many resources for rightly understanding and addressing failures and failings, and one virtue in particular is crucial for coming back from and working through failure - fortitude or courage, which includes perseverance and industriousness.
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I am surprised the idea of Stoic providence didn't come up. As someone with ADHD who is accustomed to failure on a pretty large scale the idea of providence that Seneca outlines in his essay and Epictetus talks of from time to time in his discourses is a extremely useful tool to coping with failure and suffering in general. There isn't really a more effective way to bounce back from failings when thinking of our failings in the providential way. Just a quote below from Senecas essay.
"God bears a fatherly mind towards good men, and loves them in a manly spirit. "Let them," says He, "be exercised by labours, sufferings, and losses, that so they may gather true strength." Those who are surfeited with ease break down not only with labour, but with mere motion and by their own weight. Unbroken prosperity cannot bear a single blow; but he who has waged an unceasing strife with his misfortunes has gained a thicker skin by his sufferings, yields to no disaster, and even though he fall yet fights on his knee."
Many modern Stoics don't buy ancient Stoic views on providence
Its interesting to trace the change of fortitude to strength over time. Wood carvings, tarot cards, paintings all show this transition. Lady fortitude with her pillar and helmet is way cooler than strength and her lion. Meaning wise, I feel they are two distinctly different words. Fortitude as the internal ability to weather the metaphorical storm, whiles strength is more an inner fire or courage to take action. Right now I know I can stand fast against the things I become involved with, but I lack the strength to be proactive against challenges I should be taking action against.
It wasn't a change. The term just has multiple meanings. Most important terms are ambiguous
What are the similarities and differences between stoicism and Nietzsche's philosophy?
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Would you make a video about Stoic thoghts on afterlife
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People are doing things around me that annoy & anger me. I have now also failed nature by being annoyed! lol dam stoicism's bloody hard! Thats what I love about it though :-) Focusing on my actions only and not the parts of life that I can't control is where the creation of the good life begins.
Dr, what is a Procoptodon? What I found was this “is an extinct genus of giant short-faced kangaroos that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch. P. goliah, the largest-known kangaroo that ever existed, stood about 2 m. They weighed about 200-240 “
Prokopton. Standard Stoic language for someone who is striving to make progress.
Gregory B. Sadler brilliant, thank you.
Nice intro
Peter does a great job