I plan on making more of these deep-dive videos into various philosophers, media that has interesting philosophical dimensions, and philosophical concepts. What would you like to see in the future?

This didn’t help me with my bench press. 0/10. Needs more Berserk images

Thanks for bringing out the weirdness in Stoicism!

Good to see someone talk about stoïcism holistically, not just the ethics and practical advice. So much "stoicism" today is really just stoïcism-inspired or -adjacent. I wonder if the writings of later Stoics appear more focused on ethics due to them actually writing almost exclusively about that, or due to preservation bias where later Christian copyists just copied what they thought was useful and might be in accordance with Christian religious doctrine.

Thank you for providing value to those who may not have the needs to pay for an education. I would encourage anyone who is reading this to please consider donating if they have found value in these videos. A cup of Starbucks coffee is $5 and only lasts 30 minutes. These videos provide endless amount of value.

You, Leaf by Leaf, and Benjamin Mcevoy are such a breath of fresh air here on YT. Thank you for the care and attention you put into your videos.

I can’t support you monetarily yet, but this content is amazing! Thank you for making it, and I think your transition to full time KZfaq will go well!

I came into Stoicism about five years ago with Ryan Holiday and a few others on KZfaq. I branched into reading most of Ryan's books, and sever articles on the Internet. Although I knew about most of this stuff, I had no idea how it all pieced together and why it was so important that it did. This video changed my entire perception of the philosophy and, more importantly, how I had been utilizing it. Thank you, Jared, for putting it out.

YES I first found your channel searching stoicism on KZfaq and I found it so refreshing from the general strong guy portrayals.

You have a great talent for breaking complex subjects down, and explaining them concisely. fantastic job 👏

I knew a lot of this before but having it in one place so eloquently explained is wonderful! Thanks Jared keep up the good work man!

Soooo good. I've never clicked on a video fast as it pops up and watch the whole thing in one go. This video reminded me why I subscribed to your channel. Thank you and keep doing what you are doing.

Thank you for making this video. I found it informative both for the intended subject matter and how one person can make such a professional video in every aspect. Content, video, audio, sponsor, storytelling, all of it. Tremendously valuable.

Very coherent explanation because of the separation of physics, logic and ethics. Also the information is very compact and selfcomtained; brilliant video!

Great summary! I would love a rundown on the Pre-Socratics, and how/why Socrates became the fulcrum about which discussion of ancient philosophy turns.

Brilliant video. Thank you for something so clear and well thought through. Go well.

Mate, this is an amazing video. Congratulations for your work!

I greatly appreciate the book recommendations along with a reason for each recommendation. Keep up the good work.

Thanks. Love your content and calm delivery

Thank you so much, Jared. I'm learning a lot of historical context from you!

I'm glad I came across your channel before listening from some one else about the subject. I really liked and enjoyed the way you organized and presented your material. Thank you.

Jared, thank you for such great content!

Thank you for everything you do!!

This is an excellent channel, thank you for your efforts!

Excited for these longer videos

Such a great video. I would love to hear more about the physics and logic of Stoicism - maybe next deep dive!

A very thoughtful and well narrated video

bro thank you so much for these videos, im really trying to learn more about philosphy, starting with stoicism, and you made it much easier for me!

Thanks for giving some more clarity on the depth of stoicism!

Great material! Keep going.

I love this content! I hope doing KZfaq full time (albeit through an unintentional scenario) works in your favor.

Videos like this scratch my brain itch. Thanks!

You and ParkerNotes are top tier. I hope you continue to keep making great content.

A great in-depth overview! The increased quality of content after you went full-time with KZfaq really shows. Looking forward to future uploads! Btw, that sponsor segment was hilarious😂

This was fascinating. Thanks for Not making another Ryan Holiday video. 🙌 I learned a lot.

This is an excellent primer on Stoicism. Well done, Jared.

I am Vietnamese and I really admire your work. Thank you!

fantastic video , thank you

You are wildly talented. Love your videos.

This is so well done! Thank you!

The elimination of the nuances of philosophical doctrines by means of "popularising" them, is what I hate about the community these days, now suddenly everyone seems to be a philosopher. It was a nice alley to roam around, and to actually understand what stoicism has to offer other than ancient sigma male kinda statues. Good work

this is very good, i usually struggle with how to orient and place my understanding (little) of stoic teachings, and as one who only recently (less than a year) started to read and read hard into philosophy, i can't read works at the rate that i find about them. more importantly, several friends are developing an interest in philosophy and find my self with the difficult task or orienting them, which is more difficult with stoicism, which finds itself heavily overshadowed by the works Plato, Aristotle and Arabic (middle ages), and doesn't have a simple answer for (what to read about stoicism). a video such as this, serves the purpose as a primer for accurate stoic philosophy. and from here my friends can expand. thanks for your hard work.

I would love to hear you discuss more of the non ethics portions of Stoicism. This is really good stuff. Thank you for the video.

WOW, I have never heard these things before, thanks for your video

This was incredibly informative - thank you so much. I hope you are able to teach some classes on Skillshare or somewhere. You are a great teacher.

This was very well made

Thank you for offering a missing perspective from the ones you saw around you! I also like your pace of speaking. Great video!

I’ve been following you and think your videos are great! I think it’s funny that your title for a video 10 months ago from this one was to not learn stoicism from KZfaq.

This is a great video.

Thanks, this is a fantastic primer.

Let's gooo!

great video, thank you!!

Thanks Jared.

I am entirely new to this. Very interesting.

I love this video, trying to learn more about stoicism has been very frustrating precisely because of all the crappy pop psychology videos on KZfaq. Thank you!!

Thank you so much for the video. I gained a deep understanding of Stoicism. Please keep up the awesome work! One thing I cannot fully understand is the very low engagement of females in the philosophical journey, both historically and contemporarily. You can even notice it among the watchers of this video. Thank you in advance for reading this.

Great going in providing this discussion--I know it is a lot of work. Just to add a little in the way of references: Professor Massimo Pigliucci has a book entitled How To Be A Stoic (Basic Books, 2017), and he has a video course with The Great Courses as well. It's accessible, but the terminology I find confusing, partly because the terms have changed their meaning since the first century CE. I have read the book and watched the course. I think that there is a genuine desire for guidance on how to lead a better, more serene life, and ancient philosophy addresses these concerns, when no one else seems to do so. 😊

Thanks for this - marcus aurelius has been such an help for me

Brilliant work! Finally, someone said what I was thinking. Modern Stoicism barely scratches the surface of its heritage.

I’m watching this, not because of Ryan Holiday, but because I have been interested in stoicism since before he was even born. Thank you for this insightful video!

Excellent video! The information is accurate, the presentation is clean and attractive, and your personality is sober yet fun enough (a virtue unfortunately very much lacking among YT philosophers) to make your style likeable and not irritating. Please, keep making videos like this one. It's the kind of quality that "content" on philosophy online needs more of. I think you're onto something, and I0m not sure what yet, but f this succeeds, maybe we'll see a turn in internet discourse about the hummanities. I wanna be there when it happens!

Love the background music

Thank you ❤

I've always been interested in the non-ethical beliefs of ancient stoics, thank you!

Thank you this was a great video! It is interesting how the popular proponents of Stoicism look to exclude the Physics and Logic from the overall teaching when it would seem to me they are difficult to divorce since the Ethics rely on them for much needed context. Aligning oneself with Nature makes little sense to one only versed in the Ethics so a word like Virtue is then prone to so much misinterpretation, particularly as it is not a term that has much currency these days.. Finally, I can’t help but be struck by its similarities with Daoism which ultimately begat Zen in Japan. I’d love to see you run a comparison of the two even though I know Eastern philosophy is less your thing. Thanks again and good luck with your new endeavor!

Regarding your ending: I’d say we’ve detached stoic teaching from its more spiritualized under pinnings because we find it useful. People today tend to be pragmatic. They’re also not interested in religion since they already have one they barely pay attention to or they’ve replaced faith with science-but if the philosophy is helpful, it’s helpful.

I’ve been looking for a detailed description of stoicism, free from pop-stoicism influence! Wonderful work. I’m not sure how much experience you have with early Christian philosophy, but would you have any recommendations for approachable philosophical sources, primary or secondary, on Byzantine philosophies that stem from the groundwork of St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. Dionysius the Areopagite? Or really any Byzantine philosophy haha!

The Stoas were the market places of ancient Athens. It was where news of the day was heard, and commercial transactions were transacted. A pretty good location for philosophers actually, and I'm not kidding...some of the citizens of Athens were thirsty for knowledge, just as the businessmen of today are often thirsty for knowledge and read constantly.

great job

Thanks! Its because of you that I started reading TBK & C&P... I hope you ever make a Fiodor Dostoievsky video ❤

Really great video! 💚💙💜 I'll admit this area of religion (and history) is outside my wheel house but I really appreciate you covering it, for I feel often a lot of religious individuals and people can end up coming at the topic from a non neutral or hostile angle and perspective that lacks true consideration. I find it funny how I find myself also tend to by happenstance to imagine (sometimes as an obsession haha) the universe similar to that cyclical nature of reality - where like in comparison though I imagine the world and nature may progress in the sense these cycles tend to repeat themselves through time, sorta in a Adventure Time kind of sense for which What's So Great About That covers in her video about the (first) ending of that show. (On KZfaq titled: "Adventure Time and the Nature of Endings"). Something I often find myself thinking about is not letting that arrogance I have that "I'm wise" override doing something that's truly wise in say dedication to the virtues. With that I like to think anyone can be a sage in their own way.

in one of his classes Hans-Georg Gadamer said "im not a philosopher , im a good scholar"

THANK YOU FOR THIS I really wanted to find videos on the actual history of Stoicism from someone not trying to tout it as a life saving state of being. I'm just trying to research for world building lol

This one is gonna blow up, in case you didn’t know.

It’s 1 am idk how I wound up here but I’m intrigued

W for the way you presented the sponser

Hey, i've read seneca ,epictetus and marcus book and i have some questions: You mentioned the phrase of what is in or out of our control that epictetus said i think i understooded it but fail at applimg it , how am i supposed to act upon them Like for example i am an ai engineering student , i dream of being one of the most influential people at the field and i like it pretty much Now applying this phrase i rely on thing outside my chice or interact with them , should i be away or rid myself from things outside my sphere of choice?? But also Earlier in the discorses he makes examples of if you want to be a reader then read or if you want to win an olimpia then you have to make good effort, wouldn't this contradict in a way that we care about things outside our power like winning a competition, i found also my self puzzled when i see myself wanting to compete with others because i feel like it would be kinda fun And the challenges it gives me would make me grow in a way but how to see wether its right or wrong, i feel you intentions play a role here. Also whats ykur opinion on morality of stoicism Kant saw that someone might be evil and at the same time happy, which contradicts with stoicism, which says that evil is lack of knowledge about something and so it would make hindrance? These are some of the ideas roaming in my mind, i know it might be kinda random but i hope you understand kinda what i mean Edit: i read epictetus work by robin hard and senecas work by Chicago university, and penguins editon of marcus Aurelius I am planning of rereading the discourses to answer and organize the questions

im a theology student and were mainly studying pholosophy , i got bored with my prof monotone and complex explanation but your video was just fresh ?

I agree!!

Good thoughts. It leaves me wondering: Is modern stoicism up to the task of philosophy if its original grounding in logic is abandoned, since logic entailed epistemology? On what ground can stoicism stand if it itself has abandoned grounding itself in anything? If stoicism is merely elective, it's less a philosophy than a consumeristic whim.

Hi Jared thank you so much for this excellent video! I was thinking about getting "The Stoics Reader" as you recommended. However I also saw the "Hellenistic Philosophy" (also by Hackett) in your earlier video. It seems that there are many overlaps between these two books. Do you have any suggestions which one I should get?

Good stuff

I bought the book THE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO STOICISM from Barnes and Noble. Quite everything, I already practice.

"And boiling it down to just a couple of inspirational quotes just really doesn't do it justice." True. Shots fired at popular Stoicism influencers? (Kidding. Kind of.)

I would not be too hard on the AI videos… One of those strange coincidences one was suggested to me (I never heard of stoicism as a philosophy) as I was dealing with a rough issue. He gave me some insights and help dealing with that issue. Think of them as trailers for movies… Not necessarily accurate but in the ballpark and enough to help you decide if this is something you’re interested in.

I need to know what song is playing during 11:47 breakdown. Please ;-;

The true warrior's philosophy: Stoicism

Excellent exploration of a topic that seems to receive superficial treatment in pop culture.

Lovely analysis. Stoicism is what lead me into being interested in Philosophy, and eventually lead me to other schools of thought and philosophical thinking. I hate how it's become so mainstream and is grossly misunderstood and espoused by these weird "sigma-male" types who, vindicate their shitty behavior and ultimate lack of empathy for "being a stoic". Even the term "stoic" is ill-defined in modern dictionaries as someone who doesn't show emotions, reinforcing the notion to people who aren't aware of the origins that it's another word for displaying socio-pathic tendencies, which is why I think many people turn sour at the thought or notion of stoicism when their main projection of this line of thought is by these very people who tarnish the name. Sad, because you could argue these ancient stoics we're probably more in tune with their own nature, emotional regulation and the nature of the universe compared to society at large in their respective time. Keep these coming!

Alas! Alas! Your ad for Deleteme was as great as it was informative as it was terrifying....

Perhaps the stoic’s ethical conclusions were unwittingly derived from pragmatism and the logical foundations that underly them were actually just rationalized after the fact to reach those conclusions. This might explain why so many ideologies throughout the world seem to have independently grasped toward such similar ethical conclusions.

This is a question that belongs in your previous video, but here it is: Can you recommend books or classes or teach the analytic tradition of philosophy?

What where the political parties and how would they play the council and philospher reservation in senate was philosophy linked to their political career and even in campaigning like we do now ? What did they fought for or unite for during elections if any ?

True living

It’s strange how I watched this video closely and yet I feel that I’ve only scratched the surface. As was said in the video. I still feel as though I don’t “fully” understand what stoicism is. On the terms of the ethics, I got a somewhat firm grasp but on the physics and logos is where I’m having trouble most. Think I’ll read those stuff in the description in order to get a full grasp of it. Why the hell not, I’ll finally read meditations by Marcus Aurelius. I’ve been putting it off for too long.

What's the music in the background?

As someone who spent a significant amount of time in academia specializing in Stoicism and Hellenistic philosophy, I’ve been for years bemoaning this trend of co-opting the Stoics into the new Trad Life/self help/sigma male paradigm.

Make a video on Montaigne

Sorry if this comes off topic but I am curious when is your Tolkien's video coming out if you don't mind?

Прекрасно.