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

#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?

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