thank you very much, DR! Very insightful and much to think about and take forward! And this is after watching it months after your initial video was recorded. Many positive things to consider on a personal and natural level. Much appreciated. Thank you.
Yay! I can’t wait for your graphical novel. Or should I say: the nature has given me the virtue of patience and I’ll use it to wait for your novel! Zenon’s quote about the constructive mindset is really amazing. I try to do that during my boring lectures in college. I just say to myself: okay, let’s get one positive thing from this lecture. I’m currently at chapter 7 of your latest book, I open the book & listen to your voice (audiobook) together to boost my understanding. I’m planning to re-read it many times instead of other sources. It was an enjoyable video. Thank you!
Thanks for doing this video message, the Facebook talk, and the link to your writing on stoicism in a pandemic. I've let my practice of Stoicism slip for awhile and needed to be reminded of how useful Stocism is to me as a practical life philosophy. I'm grateful that I tend towards a simple life. It makes living through this pandemic and, fate permitting, living post-pandemic less daunting.
Thank you. I've let my Stoic exercises slip of late (e.g. writing in a journal each morning, evening reflections etc.), so this coming up in my feed couldn't have happened at a better time.
Thank you for the video! Very relevant for these times. Hope to see and read more from you, since now we all need these teachings more than ever (in our lifetime, so far...).
Thank you for this video Donald. Your wisdom and insights as a teacher are as insightful as ever. Would you ever consider recording an audio version of Marcus Aurelius’s mediations? Your voice has a thoughtful mediative quality that lends it’s to that sort of text. Couple with your deep understanding of the text. I’d definitely pre purchase this!
Yes, I've thought about recording an audio version of The Meditations. I'd need to go into a recording studio to do it properly so perhaps shortly after the pandemic that might be possible.
Having studied stoicism as it pertains to their views on death and suicide, I came to understand how their ethics of virtue is tied into their whole system of philosophy. I have noticed as you did that this crucial part of a stoic worldview - the ideal of the 'sophos' - is most often overlooked.
I think the short answer to whether the the ideal of the Sophos is essential is "it depends". Their ethics is central to Stoicism and the concept of the Sophos is an important part of that but maybe it's possible, in some ways, to conceive of Stoic Ethics without much explicit reference to the Sophos. It's hard to evaluate without looking at specific examples of what's meant, though.
it is informative to know great stoics had pandemics named after them at the time. It makes me wonder if reality is doing that to me today, well I recently moved for school, and my previous city was technically Corona, so hopefully history wont repeat itself with the invasion aspect, its the same country.
I often worry that people focus too much on knowing who said what, or the dogma or a particular Stoics argument. This is something that seems to plague many religions, but Stoicism can free it’s self from. A philosophy should be able to change and improve and when more knowledge is gained.
Great discussion, thanks. I appreciate it may be quite a broad question, but do you know of any website or resource that has a compiled list of recommended reading, be it books or articles, in a structured format to help people discover Stoicism? Something like that would be incredibly helpful to me right now and I trust others would benefit greatly from it as well.
The only thing that comes to mind are the various lists readers have compiled on Goodreads. Here's one I set up... www.goodreads.com/list/show/45589.Popular_Books_on_Stoicism
dear donald, at minute 23 citing about the coffee you have an individual stoic method....not directly contained in YOUR book;) but in p PASSIGLUCCI ....the method is called TRAIN YOUR SELF WITH MINOR HARDSHIPS...even a secons i guess. mimimalism
if a novel , best would be , simpson graphics novel, i would adore^^...regarding to the son, it seems aurelius could be resilient and indifferent , but lacked to his son to refelct the danger...and its a good example not standing up to the level of the older generation ^^....just speaking of my own danger
thank you very much, DR! Very insightful and much to think about and take forward! And this is after watching it months after your initial video was recorded. Many positive things to consider on a personal and natural level. Much appreciated. Thank you.
I purchased your audio book months ago and I loved it so much I keep coming back to it. Thank you so much.
Yay! I can’t wait for your graphical novel. Or should I say: the nature has given me the virtue of patience and I’ll use it to wait for your novel!
Zenon’s quote about the constructive mindset is really amazing. I try to do that during my boring lectures in college. I just say to myself: okay, let’s get one positive thing from this lecture.
I’m currently at chapter 7 of your latest book, I open the book & listen to your voice (audiobook) together to boost my understanding. I’m planning to re-read it many times instead of other sources.
It was an enjoyable video. Thank you!
Thanks for doing this video message, the Facebook talk, and the link to your writing on stoicism in a pandemic. I've let my practice of Stoicism slip for awhile and needed to be reminded of how useful Stocism is to me as a practical life philosophy. I'm grateful that I tend towards a simple life. It makes living through this pandemic and, fate permitting, living post-pandemic less daunting.
Thank you. I've let my Stoic exercises slip of late (e.g. writing in a journal each morning, evening reflections etc.), so this coming up in my feed couldn't have happened at a better time.
Thank you for the video! Very relevant for these times. Hope to see and read more from you, since now we all need these teachings more than ever (in our lifetime, so far...).
Thank you for this video Donald. Your wisdom and insights as a teacher are as insightful as ever. Would you ever consider recording an audio version of Marcus Aurelius’s mediations? Your voice has a thoughtful mediative quality that lends it’s to that sort of text. Couple with your deep understanding of the text. I’d definitely pre purchase this!
💛 Great idea!
Yes, I've thought about recording an audio version of The Meditations. I'd need to go into a recording studio to do it properly so perhaps shortly after the pandemic that might be possible.
@@DonaldJRobertsonAuthor would be better during the pandemic as oooooonnnngoooooing...and lots of celebs do it too.,,,,but u have real wisdom here
Thank you!!
Having studied stoicism as it pertains to their views on death and suicide, I came to understand how their ethics of virtue is tied into their whole system of philosophy. I have noticed as you did that this crucial part of a stoic worldview - the ideal of the 'sophos' - is most often overlooked.
I think the short answer to whether the the ideal of the Sophos is essential is "it depends". Their ethics is central to Stoicism and the concept of the Sophos is an important part of that but maybe it's possible, in some ways, to conceive of Stoic Ethics without much explicit reference to the Sophos. It's hard to evaluate without looking at specific examples of what's meant, though.
For the ones that lived simply,this crisis isnt as apocalyptic.
Long time no see :) happy to watch a new video from you, thanks Donald.
Thanks.Ive heard this is a great opportunity to study/practice Stoicsm.I keep thinking how Marcus would react to this pandemic.
Since beginning of 2016 I regularly practiced negative visualization. I imagined these: losing job, illness, poverty, death.
it is informative to know great stoics had pandemics named after them at the time. It makes me wonder if reality is doing that to me today, well I recently moved for school, and my previous city was technically Corona, so hopefully history wont repeat itself with the invasion aspect, its the same country.
I often worry that people focus too much on knowing who said what, or the dogma or a particular Stoics argument. This is something that seems to plague many religions, but Stoicism can free it’s self from. A philosophy should be able to change and improve and when more knowledge is gained.
Well said. 👍
yeah bro, eye opener
I like how Seneca pops over to the enemy camp and picks up these little gold nuggets
Great discussion, thanks. I appreciate it may be quite a broad question, but do you know of any website or resource that has a compiled list of recommended reading, be it books or articles, in a structured format to help people discover Stoicism? Something like that would be incredibly helpful to me right now and I trust others would benefit greatly from it as well.
The only thing that comes to mind are the various lists readers have compiled on Goodreads. Here's one I set up... www.goodreads.com/list/show/45589.Popular_Books_on_Stoicism
dear donald, at minute 23 citing about the coffee you have an individual stoic method....not directly contained in YOUR book;) but in p PASSIGLUCCI ....the method is called TRAIN YOUR SELF WITH MINOR HARDSHIPS...even a secons i guess. mimimalism
Donald Robertson discusses Zeno's lesson, which he recounts at the end of the video, here.
dailystoic.com/donald-robertson-interview/
if a novel , best would be , simpson graphics novel, i would adore^^...regarding to the son, it seems aurelius could be resilient and indifferent , but lacked to his son to refelct the danger...and its a good example not standing up to the level of the older generation ^^....just speaking of my own danger