It's a real shame we don't have more lectures from the late Rick Roderick. I just wanted to thank the folks at The Partially Examined Life for uploading these. Keep up the great work gang!

As a German Biologist, when I first saw a video of Rick- I instantly, intellectually I feel a deep admiration for this wonderful, great man - An intellectual fossil to be cloned and revived - I like ALL of his presentations!

this was 10x better than my $700 uni class on the stoics.

His talks have Been a good companion over the years . I would care to keep the company of more chaps like rick

I will never get tired of these lectures, and never stop wanting more. Rick should be more we’ll known and loved. Shame he’s not still with us.

Thanks to all who loves Professor Roderick as much as I do. The Examined Life also. ❤️Rome was luting the world, we still are in 2022. Human nature 101 Roderick makes one laugh and love philosophy ❤️

Thank you Partially Examined for uploading Rick Roderick from Great Courses!!! I am so sorry that the Great Courses have faded away from Professors like him on these topics and now focus on cooking, photography and knitting instead.

2024 pure intellectual pleasure

I love finding these random digs at Trump in Rick's talks - throwing shade from beyond the grave 25 years later haha

booty from all over the world

Man, I don’t have anything clever to say. I just love this guy!

God, I wish the guys at PEL all had accents like his

I think we need more talks from this guy

Wow, Luke Skywalker's really let himself go

20:10 Oh, if only you knew, Rick...

Im listening and not watching, and its like if Mr. Garrison from south park was an actual professor. Ive been binging this guy, great stuff

People generally think that the more hours they work the more money they earn. So people in the US work more hours than the people who did forty years ago. But an average American is poorer than an average American forty years ago. American culture encourages hard work and preaches the idea that hard working people will get rewarded for their hard work. Unfortunately that's not true, why? Because hard work and intense competition drive down wages. Slaves work very hard for their masters, do they get paid?

Thanks for uploading!

I'd object to the notion that the Stoics had no answer for happiness and certainly they did not embrace the Christian ideal of an "other world". You should consider the Enchiridion and the idea put forth by Epictetus that there are things in our control and things not. Happiness comes from living in a particular way in which one knows the difference and thus modifies one's opinions and desires accordingly. Such a person who has accomplished this is Free. Freedom for the Stocis, was far more important than simple happiness. And who could be happier than one who was truly free? Also the Stoics were generally Monists. All things are God. The One is all and the All is one. There could be no other world to "believe" in nor would any Stoic buy into the idea that to get to that world should require certain beliefs. While I think the early Christians were no doubt influence by the Stoics. That Justinian banned their open practice also shows how much the early Church felt threatened by the Stoics.

For those having trouble with the "proof of the existence of god [in reality]". 1. God is a "being" which is greater than which cannot be conceived [in the mind]. 2. It is greater to exist in the mind and in reality than in the mind in alone. The argument proves that if god exists and is greater than which cannot be conceived in the mind then it must exist in reality. It is pretty obvious because if God is something that is greater than what is conceived in the mind then the only other place that conception can "spill" over is in reality. The first argument pushes god to having to be in something "larger than" the mind alone. The second premise then says it is more to exist in the mind and reality than the mind alone and so that god, being more than mind, must exist in reality. This is basic Venn Diagram stuff where if M is mind and R is reality then since G = God is greater than mind(M is contained within G but G is strictly larger than M) then G intersect R is non-empty which proves G exists in reality.

The older I get, the more I think the Stoics were correct.

20:14 really funny he says this right after talking about how we cannot predict the future.

such a good summation of blade runner's appeal...

He’s the best.

at around 20:10 or so Roderick speaks on the phrase "The one who dies with the most toys wins" and then makes a remark about Trump's funeral :')

@GGPlato is right 9:21 is marcus aurelius

I gotta say, Rick's account of excellence really contradicts both plato and arstotle, who said that to concern yourself with only one thing was the way to get excellent at it.

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

Seneca (stoic) tell Luciliius tha if he wishes to practice Stoicism - he will have to make it is his business to "learn how to feel joy". - adding that the reason he wants Lucilius to practice Stoism is because he does not wish Lucilius " ever to be deprived of gladness". The problem of generalization is that it misses out important details that could make the listener interpret things in a completely different way.

The Ontological Argument (and Logical Abracadabra), the chapter of "irreligion" of John Allen Paulos, page 34, you can use as a good response for Rick Roderick proof of god.

Did anybody ever go to school and read the CLASSICS like Aristotle, Plato, Voltaire, Epictitis(spell), Socrates? PHAEDO is Platos' eyewitness account of Socrates' suicide. I mean, they're out there. They help us form and shape OUR personal values in and of life. That's what this man did and guess what? So can we. Get off your duff and go to the library where these VOLUMES are at your fingertips - not over the computer.

I wonder what kind of lecture Rick would have given if he was alive to see Trump on the throne. He saw Reagan make it, but Trump?

I see only Kinison giving the greatest ironical set layered in contemporized Ancient Greek ethos

mr garrison!! mmmkay!

I LOVE Roderick! A 19th century Fossil-Extinct! He should be resurrected and cloned!

The ontological argument for God is kinda interesting in that it follows the structure of the argument for a mathematical infinity. Say you were to ask me "What's infinity?" and I were to answer with "Name a number; it's bigger than that." So you say "Three." - "Bigger than that." "Four. Four is bigger." - "Bigger than four." "How about 1 billion?" - "Bigger than that." "1 billion and one..." and so on because you can always think of a number bigger than the one you mentioned even if it's by an infinitesimal amount. So here's my question to you philosophy buffs better educated than me: What do you make of the fact that Cantor discovered that there are different degrees of infinities? Like a hierarchy of infinities. Does that imply that the ontological argument actually points to a hierarchy of Gods?

Apathy- Grateful Indifference

Lol even Professor Roderick got a pop shot at Trump. Would pay money to see his analysis of todays political environment.

1:36 Lol so true about Texas :D

Someone ought to re animate Rick so he can talk about the Cynics.

can anybody tell me the name of classical music intro ?

donald trump at 41:xx. this is relevant in 2016.

"Excellent food in moderate quantities". @ 6:50. Sorry, you got that wrong. Epicurus advocated a simple diet: bread, water, wine, a little cheese. Also your definition of hedonism does not jibe with actual life on the communes. For a more accurate and in depth account of epicurianism check out Wes Cecil: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6lymbqWr9HWo2w.html

you might be a stoic if...

Trump mentioned @20:15!!!

20:13

14:36

Fine, but it's simply not factual to say that Stoicism came after Epicureanism and was attractive only in the context of a declining Roman empire. The two philosophies were in competition for centuries. Panaetius of Rhodes introduced Stoicism to Rome in the first century BCE.

When did receipt of full board and lodging, access to income earned by someone else and a major, if not equal, say in the spending of that income equate to "unpaid"?

mentioned trump 20:21

Wonder if Rick today would use the whole “house worker” meme - kind of reduces core human relations to wage pay jobs. Anti human. Also, Beavis and Butthead at @3:50

What language is he speaking?

Does Trump represent a "falling in power" for us now?

mmmkay!

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There is NO God.... But God

The way Trump is going he might only have 1 rather than 3 limousines at his funeral!

I'd strongly argue that it's not a good trick at all, and that Anselm was a hack - eg: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fNOEprZm3aylZp8.html

The god thing is silly, if god is part of reality but not the entire reality then god is not the greatest thing, but if he is everything then he is no single being, there is no reason to belive that linguistic twists like this makes sense, and to a beliver in the reality of reality, the mind must be real and its contents as well, there is no usefull distingtion to be had. Every isolated thing os born out of chaos, and the chaos only exsist in absence of perfect knowlagde, when everything is considered there should be nothing outside it, or real boundries within it. Our reasoning is kind of arbitrary.

Trump might only have a blue bus at his funeral

What a bumpkin.

I like this guy, but I think he's just straight up wrong about Anselm's argument. It's not the most nearly proved. I have a dual degree in philosophy and computer science, and I had to take all the classes to get the philosophy degree as a normal degree requires. In one of my history of philosophy classes, we learned about Gaunilo at the same time we learned about Anselm. And it was pretty clear to me at the time that Gaunilo of Marmoutiers destroyed Anselm's argument. Anselm tried to say that Gaunilo missed the point, which is ridiculous. There was no point to miss. It's an invalid argument. And to suggest that it is a valid argument, or 'nearly proved', is simply wrong-headed. It makes it seem as though those who reject it are deficient in logic, when they're not.

Imagine if he knew we let Trump be president

The occasional nod to some post modernist notions. A pity because this is otherwise a good lecture.

I'd like to add that he forgot that other democratic institution without which there would be no Death --- Life.

Stoics are the worst philosophers by far.

LMAO no one found the joke funny 4:56