Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes | Why Virtue Is Sufficient For Happiness

Cicero, Stoic Paradoxes | Why Virtue Is Sufficient For Happiness | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This core concept video focuses on Cicero's short work, the Stoic Paradoxes, and discusses the claim that the Stoic school of philosophy made, that virtue is sufficient for happiness. He argues that virtue - and the pursuit and valuing of it - makes us self-sufficient, by contrast to what people take to be the goods of fortune.
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Пікірлер: 27

@OmarDelawar 5 жыл бұрын

The stoic’s were badass philosophers. I can’t believe their wisdom still applies today. Fascinating stuff.

@GregoryBSadler 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's why we keep studying ancient philosophy in the present

@tibfulv 4 жыл бұрын

Empirics are like that. Aristotle's logic still applies. and we've only built on mathematics from the Sumerians onwards.

@glenw1740 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this! I can totally see how my happiness fluctuates depending on fortune. Really glad I listened to this one. Makes me think of "Frank Sinatra - that's life" it didn't have to be like that Frank!

@savvageorge 6 жыл бұрын

Great video. I've heard this information before but it's all too easy to forget when you're busy playing the game of life and chasing after things outside of yourself.

@GregoryBSadler 6 жыл бұрын

Glad to read you enjoyed it

@jamesrobinson6726 7 жыл бұрын

Fantastic! I've really been enjoying the short format video's - your teaching skills are excellent.

@GregoryBSadler 7 жыл бұрын

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@jayyo3574 7 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I just discovered your channel. This will all be very useful for me.

@GregoryBSadler 7 жыл бұрын

Good!

@jmpl1672 5 жыл бұрын

And the whole time i thought instagram was the key to happiness lol.

@MichaelEngel55 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us

@GregoryBSadler 9 ай бұрын

Well, more the wisdom of those whose works I teach, rather than my own. But you're welcome!

@SushovonSamuelRorrison 7 жыл бұрын

Great Video and you represented it in a very straightforward and simple way so everyone can understand it.

@GregoryBSadler 7 жыл бұрын

That's definitely the goal!

@franciscoluna3651 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you so professor. Excellent lesson

@GregoryBSadler 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@estebandelacruzg1281 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video! I am studying philosophy because I like Heidegger, Sartre and Hannah Arendt. But I like this kind of ethics.

@GregoryBSadler 7 жыл бұрын

Well, all of them studied and appreciated these ancients, so not a bad idea!

@averegeyoutuber9133 5 жыл бұрын

Good work.

@GregoryBSadler 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@vukasinbvasic 6 жыл бұрын

great

@ryfreedman 3 жыл бұрын

More good stuff!

@GregoryBSadler 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@DeanRendar 4 жыл бұрын

the only gossip buzz that ultimately matters in the end of it all, you proud bout your impact from existing?, oyeah, what for?

@chema8360 4 жыл бұрын

Damn! Both Mr Spock and Batman were stoics then!

@GregoryBSadler 4 жыл бұрын

Neither were, really, once you understand Stoicism well