23) Stoicism - Marcus Aurelius 

38:24 "Every day, every hour sees a change in you, although the ravages of time are easier to see in others; in your own case they are far less obvious, because to you they do not show. While other people are snatched away from us, we are being filched away surreptitiously from ourselves." - Seneca

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There are so many adults that forget to grow up in this day and age, it’s so hard to really fail at anything with these “adults” walking around as your competition...Just shut down your social media, work an hour more every day, and you have already gotten ahead of 90% of your peers. It’s so easy to win in this age, especially with all the business and time saving opportunities of the internet. It seems everything I have touched in the past 5 years has turned to gold and I am not even that smart. I just obsess over time and talk to people only out of necessity. I don’t even bother with social media for my businesses.

Great Lecture Adam. I really appreciate your content, keep up the great work! - Charles

I absolutely love marcus and stoicism

You are very engaging Mr. Professor. Greetings from Portugal

Love this, However MA definitely cared for his people.

great lectures. thanks for uploading!

A large part of Aurelius's ideas is correcting people in the wrong, being kind to others, and being a social.

Excellent discussion. Learned a lot - thank you!

Literally saved my life. Thank you.

20:00 might want to actually look into marcus 's empathy, it might surprise you...

"Carrying for all people is according to our nature"- MA quoted in response to the idea that stoicism turns people into unempathic inwardness.

gotta love this guy

Great lecture!

I love you as a teacher :D

I also think theres slight misunderstanding from some of the class about whay it means to be the emperor of rome, in the sense that although saying marcus has more control than a slave over things. Obviously he does. Its what he could do that he doesn't. He has a free pass to be whatever type of person he wants to be. Lazy, drunk, abusive, sleep with anyone he wants, kill anyone who anoys him etc etc (somthing his son took full advantage off) and instead all we see is virtuous behaviour on all fronts

I am trying to make sure that I correctly understood and am not missing any of the main ideas presented in this video about Marcus Auriillius and his philosophy: Marus Aurillius thinks people should adopt a stoic approach ( meaning that one should only worry and think about what they can control and not bother worrying about anything else that is not such as for example other people's feelings or behaviors etc?) He also belives in that what people have in common is their ability to reason. Now, I am not sure if the following is my interpretation or marcus arueilius ideas but since we share that in common we should be more understanding and maybe even this approach encourages people to form connections with each other. Maybe this would be a good way to run a country beacuse that way rules can be created in which all people can agree upon. since we share things in common each person is part of a whole community of reasonable people. One can think of this idea as possibly contradicting with Marcus agreeing with Heraclitus opinion that everything sees will cease ( weather one likes it or not) to exist since everything changing( which means its being destoryed as one form and becoming somthing else) if the changes Heraclitues refers to is on the individual level and after one dies they becomes part of a whole / universe on a big scale it may not place much iimportance on the individual . This does not seem to inspire a philosophy in which allot of emphasis is on the self and self control. This philsophy can also be criticized for not being very motivating for feeling empathy towards others since it encourages one to worry about the self and not waste time being upset about others pain which also may be beyond your control . yet Marcus says to feel bad for other s who sin . So the question becomes what can a person control. one would think even their character is beyond their control in some ways ( in certain situations) since it is usually a respond to the people around them which is not always within their control . ( as the example you gave were people are afraid to give money beacuse of previous charity scams) so the answer .... one shoud be the person they want to be ( and that is possible) but hard since may not always get result you want ( for example in the situation of giving money a person may mean well and be ready to do that even though the money will not go were intended) so are you saying it is the thought that counts more than the result?

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well i listened to this ..so must be good stuff

stoic is daoist that cares about himself

Do you really want to live forever? Really think about that. Would you really be alive if you lived forever?

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Good.

I get there being no guarantee of Aurelius raising a son fit to rule. But what I don't understand is why this obviously really smart guy wasn't smart enough to see his son couldn't rule?

The passive-agressive intros are killing me

Not the best at explaining himself. Nice. Energy. Maybe he's just expecting a student to take over the lesson or just give him more.

The opposite of stoicism is you are a victim.