#141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars
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Episode #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.
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(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?
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