#141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars
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#141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars
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John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His books include Lessons in Stoicism, The Fourfold Remedy, Aristotle and his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Tour
00:32 – Did Socrates Found Stoicism?
08:03 – The Three Eras of Stoicism
17:50 – Stoic Logic
26:19 – Empiricism: How the Stoics Got Knowledge
34:33 – Materialism: Only Physical Things Exist
43:00 – How Reason Fundamentally Animates the Universe
48:43 – Did the Stoics Believe in God?
59:37 – Do the Stoics Contradict Themselves?
01:08:17 – Stoic Ethics
01:24:24 – How Did the Stoics Deal With Evil?
01:36:32 – Can You Choose Your Outcome If Everything Is Determined?