Stoic Philosophy and Practice: The Basics | The Virtue of Wisdom | Gregory Sadler
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I have started a new monthly live-streaming series, in which I'll discuss and field questions about basic concepts and practices of Stoicism. I'll present on the topic for the session for about 20-30 minutes, and then address comments and questions from the participants.
The topic for this month is a deeper dive into one the four virtues Stoics make central to human happiness: wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance. We will look specifically at the virtue of wisdom, drawing upon the works of Seneca, Epictetus, Cicero, Diogenes Laertes, and Arius Didymus.
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2:51 Wisdom
Sophia
Phronesis
3:56
Safientia
4:54
Modern Academic Interpretor
Read the Stoic Texts
5:48 Late Roman Empire
Seneca 14:39
Epictetus 12:10
Heracles
Marcus Tulius Cicero 15:01
7:37 Where does Wisdom come from?
Out of our Human Nature
8:29 Curiosity, Cognition, Comprehension, Perception, Discovery 💡
10:29 Detector of Lies
12:56 Meta-Thought, Knowing Unknowns
13:41 Spectators of That which wants to be closely observed
16:53 Wisdom rules Crafts
Seeks to bring us Happiness
19:53 Rational Choice
Episteme - knowing, understanding
22:55 Relations & Oughts: Duty
Obedience to Bad Law?
23:59 Sensibleness
Worse/Better - Preference
Relevance
Ingenuity - Find the way out of pragmata
Give them what they need
Acting with Wisdom
Handle Difficulties
28:11 Good Judgement determines so much else
30:21 The Wise/Sage
34:45 “What can I make of myself?”
36:56 All Virtues involve Wisdom
38:29 Life becoming Unendurable, with prudence
40:50 Intrinsically Good
45:15 Wrong Dogmata
48:19 Sex, Marriage, Friendship
51:22 Wisdom vs Folly
Act on Good Motivations
55:42 Not just a Stoic
Regret - usually negative
Why are you feeling Regret?
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Excellent talk... broad yet simple...
Keywords: Stoicism & Wisdom; Practical Wisdom; Prudence; Philos-Sophia; Phronesis; Sapientia; Prudentia; Sage; Wise Person
4 Stoic Virtues: Justice; Courage; Temperance
Thank you for this thorough deep dive examination on this core subject. Looking forward the next topic.
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Thank you, this was so refreshing and interesting. Huge fan from Ecuador :)
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Interesting and informative lecture, thanks a lot
Glad you enjoyed it
Read Cicero's "On Duties" recently. Wouldn't have read it without this series. Thanks.
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Very interesting, I didn’t expect you to walk through the list of sub-Virtues in Arius Didymus haha awesome.
The Virtue of Shrewdness (“Knowledge which is able to discover the appropriate act on the spot”) has always caught my eye; do you think there’s a time component to it? In other words is this “finding the appropriate act quickly”? The translation “on the spot” isn’t very helpful.
It has to do with determining it in the circumstances
@@GregoryBSadler Gotcha, thanks.
I think that for there to be source of genuine ethical normativity it must be something that explains why some things and states matter to us. In case of Epicureans, I think this is easier to argue because pleasure just is something that everyone desires as end itself or for its own sake. My worry with Stoics idea of the highest good is whether it can accomplish this normative task or not
I’d say you’ll want to question all those dogmatic assertions you’re making there. And then, once you realize you don’t have to make them, not only will those worries go away, you’ll be in a better position to study the Stoics
@@GregoryBSadler When I read Stoics they are really inspiring and provide commonsense wisdom how to handle normal every day situations with calm mind. But surely that's not the whole story. I don't think its controversial to say that virtue ethics (which Stoic ethics is part of) is suppose to provide normative standard as in how we ought to behave or give guidance for living a good life beyond self-help slogans, right? That's what I mean by genuine normativity that Stoicism is ethical theory and not reducible to something like self-help or cognitive therapy (although it contributes a lot to those, I'm big fan of Donald Robertson).
@@coffeesmug3406 Again, you're making a lot of assumptions that are getting in your own way.
@@GregoryBSadler Well you mentioned Lawrence C. Becker's New Stoicism book. He's trying to justify Stoic ethics, same thing I'm talking about with ethical normativity. So its not like academics aren't interested in Stoic metaethics. Do you like disagree with this project or think its somehow not helpful in understanding ancient Stoics?
@@coffeesmug3406 I think his project is fine. I'd spend some time with the Stoic texts and for the time being drop this obsession with shoehorning everything into "ethical normativity". That's really quite enough time I've given to this conversation
I like the Stoics, but I don't like their view on suicide.
Rather a tangent there
Wait do you not think women have been marginalized?
I don’t want to misrepresent what you said so to be clear you said that women haven’t been erased through history, at least that’s what I heard. Do you not believe this is the case?
@RUCam08 You've misrepresented what I've said. You need to listen more closely to what's said, or read the transcript, where I'm not being asked about women being marginalized, but "erasure from history". AND you really need to focus on what's most important in these discussions, not tangents like this
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