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Marcus Aurelius: The Man Who Solved the Universe [video]
- collin128 3y agoStoicism mixed with CBT helped me get through some challenging anxiety attacks. I think Seneca shared these 'tenants' in his letters to Lucilius (book: Letters from a Stoic) but I could have that one wrong. Either way, they've stuck with me: 1. Control your perceptions 2. Direct you actions accordingly 3. Willingly accept what is outside of your control
- kwhitefoot 3y agoTenets?
- shortcrct 3y agoThe same thing, for all intensive purposes.
- tsunamifury 3y agoI hope that joke was on purpose :)
- kwhitefoot 3y agoPorpoise surely!
- mortallywounded 3y agoIronically? Stoicism was the inspiration for CBT.
- ryandvm 3y agoI found Seneca's letters to be much more approachable than Meditations.
- tsunamifury 3y agoStoicism was a mentality created (popularized) by an emperor and adopted by a people who lived in a cruel and domineering world. Life could be short and mean and you had to deal with that. To rule Rome you had to be ruthless and deadly, and feel little guilt about it. These days stoicism is rebranded in a way I find very unhealthy. It’s a thinly veiled excuse for self centered sociopathy rather than an embrace of the natural rhythms of the world and what is in and not in your control. It has become either an excuse to give up one’s individuality in a system or to imagine it empowers you in some “sigma” way to conquer it. I wish more people would study it in its context, a philosophy for a cruel and bitter world — something many of us do not live in today.
- kwhitefoot 3y ago> Stoicism was a mentality created by an emperor No it wasn't. Stoicism was centuries old by the time of Aurelius. "Stoicism originated as a Hellenistic philosophy, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus), c. 300 B.C.E. It was influenced by Socrates and the Cynics, " https://iep.utm.edu/stoicism/ https://iep.utm.edu/stoicism/
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- bugglebeetle 3y agoIt is quite humorous that people have taken up a philosophy premised on resigning to yourself that no better world is possible, when the world devised by its adherents has been overthrown countless times over by people who did not believe that, resulting in the more just and equitable one we now inhabit.
- tsunamifury 3y agoThis is an excellent point that people seem to constantly ignore. Stoicism, for all its helpful disciplines, has been countered by a reality where changes have taken place by people who dared to think otherwise and hold on to romantic ideals.
- vichu 3y agoThis channel has some of the best usage of AI art that I’ve seen. I wouldn’t consider the background art of this kind of content core, but it is important. I’m very impressed by what is generated and how well it goes along with what he talks about.
- greggsy 3y agoThis reminds me of the ‘Wholphin’ DVDs of mid 2000’s, and other essay format releases that fell into obscurity following the rise of the cookie cutter YouTuber (guy with a mic, sponsored baseball cap/trinkets, and some pinkish hue lights in the background). My favourite exceptions (IMO) might be Asianometry, EckhartsLadder, InternetHistorian and YMS.
- hughesjj 3y agoOof, Internet historian is a bit problematic but agreed otherwise. Good news is that the video essay format is kind of in vouge again and not just niche
- DyslexicAtheist 3y agoone of my favorite things from reading Nietzsche is that he considered Stoic's to be kill-joy's :) And as much as I like reading "Meditations" when I get too immersed in self-critic and self-control I remember Nietzsche and feel much better again. https://medium.com/@tomic.edward/nietzsches-devastating-critique-of-stoicism-in-beyond-good-and-evil-8f74b558dc2d https://medium.com/@tomic.edward/nietzsches-devastating-crit...
- interiorchurch 3y agoSeriously, if stoicism is so good for mental health why did so many of them suicide? And why was Marcus Aurelius specifically such a poor father? Seems like a bad track record to me. I'd rather party with the Nietzscheans.
- konart 3y agoDifferent cultures at different times viewed suicide differently under different situations. Suicide is not necessarily a result of a mental problem.
- thenerdhead 3y agoRIP to Michael Sugrue who just passed away this week. He helped me understand philosophy and he narrates the beginning of this video.
- siliconc0w 3y agoThe critique is that you don't naturally know right from wrong and there are plenty of cases of men truly convinced they are virtuous doing horrific things. So you can see why it's helpful for a roman emperor but probably not the best thing for modern society.
- chrisjc 3y ago> but probably not the best thing for modern society do you mean for leaders and officials in modern society, or anyone? Either way, I'm genuinely curious why you generally think this?
- siliconc0w 3y agoGenerally - I don't think we at all know what is the most 'virtuous' thing to do either individually or in aggregate as a society. You can see this with the EA movement where people convinced they dedicated their lives to helping (or maybe one day helping) others really are just personally enriching themselves and committing fraud. We can build or expand - is that virtuous? We can reduce or minimize our impact - is that virtuous? We can seek health, prosperity or purpose for most of us but maybe that dooms some percentage to misery - is that virtuous? I think deep humility that we really don't know and can only incrementally experiment and still mostly be wrong is the best we can do.