Epicurus says: “Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old..” We hope that you enjoyed this video and for more videos to help you find success and happiness using ancient philosophical wisdom, don’t forget to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching.
1. Be content with little, minimalist 2. Study philosophy all your life, the love of wisdom, the key to a good life 3. Learn to rely on yourself, live justly, prudently, honorably 4. Develop courage through adversity, it makes us stronger. 5. Get great friends, to ensure the happiness throughout the whole of life 6. Do not try to be popular, be authentic yourself 7. Don’t fear death, enjoy life 8. Strive to achieve peace of mind, tranquil pleasure, a sense of calm and peace
@@lovenikolatesla846 Well, maybe I got the wrong end of the stick. Anyway, it seems that 'materiaslistic' leads to a serious and terrible problems, so who was the man that introduced in our society that theory?
. I feel deep affinity with a man who was born two thousand years before in Greece. His name was Epicurus. Nobody thinks of him as religious. People think that he was the most atheistic man ever born, the most materialistic ever born; he was just the opposite of the religious man. But that is not my understanding. Epicurus was a naturally religious man. Remember the words ′naturally religious′; religion happened to him. That′s why people overlooked him, because he never went to seek. The proverb: eat, drink and be merry, comes from Epicurus. And this has become the attitude of the materialist. But Epicurus, in fact, lived one of the most austere of lives. He lived as simply as nobody has ever lived. Even a Mahavir or a Buddha were not so simple and austere as Epicurus - because their simplicity was cultivated; they had worked for it, it had been a practice. They had thought about it, and they had dropped all that was unnecessary. They had been disciplining themselves to be simple. And whenever there is discipline, there is complexity. There is a fight in the background, and the fight will always be there in the background. Mahavir was naked, nude; he had renounced all - but he had renounced. It was not natural. Epicurus lived in a small garden. The garden was known as Epicurus′ garden. He had no academy like Aristotle, or a school like Plato; he had a garden. It seems simple and beautiful. A garden seems more natural than an academy. He lived in the garden with a few friends. That seems to be the first commune. They were just living there, not doing anything in particular, working in the garden, having just enough to live. It is said that the king once came to visit... And he had been thinking that this man must be living in luxury because his motto was: Eat, drink and be merry. ′If this is the message,′ the King thought, ′I will see people living in luxury, in indulgence.′ But when he arrived he saw very simple people working in the garden, watering trees. The whole day they had been working. They had very few belongings, only enough to live. And by the evening, when they were there having dinner, there was not even any butter; just dry bread and a little milk - but they enjoyed it as if it were a feast. After the dinner, they danced. The day was over and they offered a thanksgiving to the existence. And the King wept - because he had always thought to condemn Epicurus in his mind. He asked, ′What do you mean by saying, "Eat, drink and be merry?"′ Epicurus said, ′You have seen. For twenty four hours we are happy here. And if you want to be happy, you have to be simple - because the more complex you are, the more unhappy you become. The more complex the life, the more misery it creates. We are simple not because we are seeking God, we are simple because to be simple is to be happy.′ And the King said, ′I would like to send some presents for you. What would you like for the garden and your community?′ And Epicurus was at a loss. He thought and thought and he said, ′We don′t think that anything else is needed. Don′t be offended; you are a great King, you can give everything - but we don′t need. If you insist, you can send a little salt and butter.′ He was an austere man.
*”The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” - Marcus Aurelius*
"If God is all powerful, then Evil cannot be exolained"......Amen! Some of the kindest, most moral people I know have no belief or fear of God, Heaven, or Hell... This is one of the Most concise and comprehensive videos I've ever seen on how to Live a Better Life!!! THANK YOU!🙏🙏🙏
I would like to ask where can I find such people who love discussing philosophies under a palm tree. I just think that nowadays, it's very rare and I believe, those people are highly intelligent. Really appreciated this video. Don't have so much to say but thank you. Just want to cry, literally.
We are out there, but many of us practice philosophy, but don't discuss it much as we don't preach it, so the subject doesn't come up in conversation. Most philosophy is personal, and about working on your own virtues and research.
You taking your time in watching this video and reflecting upon your own circumstances already makes you more of a philosopher than you think. In the lack of communication with others, you should reflect upon your own ideas and develop your own virtues and once you've better'd yourself, you will have an easier time in finding people that are like-minded.
The good thing is more and more people are getting interested in philosophy and inner-peace being that we are in the Age of Aquarius. So confident of finding my tribe 🙂
The most cruel part, kindness attracts narcissists. Maintain your boundaries and goals or you will be building someone else's life while you have nothing.!
Ive been discovering the philosophy of the past and have found beautful peace through stoicism. It has occurred to me there are no meetings to discuss thesee teachings. The spiritual have church, the addicted have anon... I think we should organize to create forums in person.
I have a hard time understanding 3 concepts: - why such an emphasis on friends when friends can at any moment betray you, disappoint you, move on with their own lives, move away or die? Seems like the friendships epicurus had in mind were supposed to be eternal and unproblematic all the way through, which is impossible. Given that epicurianism says that love relationships are not the goal because of the pain they can cause, I have a hard time understanding how the same thing doesn't apply to friendships 》》 also, why not mentionning family? Sure, you can't choose your family and I know that epicurianism isn't advising to reproduce...but...what are you supposed to do with your parents and relatives in general? Ignore them? - I don't think people are anxious because of the afterlife only. They are afraid of suffering before they die and make their love ones suffer. And they are afraid to miss their loved ones and be overwhelmed with guilt or memories that are too painful to remember. - how are you supposed to react when things don't go your way? If you seek ways to not suffer all the time by living a balanced life etc...doesn't mean that things won't happen to you. You may lead a very healthy lifestyle and yet become extremely sick and suffer and not be able to do anything anymore til you die. How are you supposed to deal with it if all the ataraxia you have ever reached was due to your absence of suffering in the first place? You can only have an impact on a small fraction of what happens to you. I can only imagine that epicurus would have crumbled at the death of a friend. I don't know if I am expressing myself correctly. Epicurianism sounds like a great philosophy and I know many people who embody it naturally. But the aforementionmed points puzzle me.
I think he was not immune to emotions or suffering- nor did he ignore these things, but rather, found ways to navigate emotions and limit hardships through balance and ataraxia (and reflection on philosophy). This is just my early opinion on this, im new to Epicurean philosophy, but he 'seemed' like a reasonable guy.
Arun, by actually living within his philosophical thoughts, after studying those in a book and or a RU-vid "audiobook" videos is exactly how you become a better swimmer or a well trained surgeon. Lessons followed by practice in the subject are ideal IMHO. And by watching a well done video of swimming or surgery is an extension of the books on those subjects, making them much easier to understand.
Thanks for this excellent video. Epicurus is a big influence in how I live my life. Personally I question the law of the land in the cases where its has little to do with justice and more about social control etc. But I hold myself to being virtuous in my dealings with people etc.
At 9:22 “Relying on yourself involves a certain kind of ethics and confidence in the law”. Does anyone see any problems with this logic? Then the speaker goes on to say we need to rely on good lawyers and logic?!? Also, this presupposes that the ethics of others align with your own, or you need to adjust your ethics to align with the crowd , further illustrating you can’t be self sufficient. It seems to me you are not being self reliant but instead of relying or praying to a god you substitute him with the man, or the political system. Or maybe I just don’t get it…
I think it just means you shouldn't rely on supernatural intervention and use all means at your disposal to battle problems yourself. I don't know much about the general ethics at that time. But nowadays it does feel like certain good moral ethics are very rare. If that sentence is redundant, excuse me, English is not my first language.
Buddhism: Nirvana is the highest form of happiness : monk life is to use everything less, eat less, speak less, but do more good : Do meditation : You are the one who controls your own life not God, karma means action cause of your action, good or bad
I identify myself as a Stoic. However, I do see many similarities between the two pholosphies. Whatever differences there are don't seem significant. 🤔😉
Believing in a higher power or the workings of the universe is not absolving one from taking action in their life. As the saying goes, "Faith without works is dead".
What have I learned due to this video ? 1) You should be content with little, lead a minimalist life . By doing this you will see how calm and peaceful your life will become. You should not envy other people who lets say have a more advanced car or a house because you will consider that your car is a nonworthy trash. 2)You should study philosophy, fill your life with wisdom . Live this life right now, enjoy it cause you have only one life and no more..... Live now cause ,be authentic , as philisophers think there is no a punishment in afterlife.We develop our rational faculties and learn to make better decisions . Personally I can highly recommend you to write a diary where you can gather your everyday thoughts , compare them with the past thoughts and become better every day. 3)
Enlightening videos, but avoid generalisations e.g. 17:20 'We all fear death.' I certainly don't and I'm definitely not alone, judging by conversations I have had with a number of other persons.
Greeks philosophy was influenced by eastern civilizations such as Phoenicians (introduction of alphabet), ancient Egypt (maths) & ancient iraq (astronomy).Also philosophies such as stoicism were from the east, especially from Phoenician , modern Lebanon.
@@abdirahmanbadal781 Phoenician is a syllabic writing system It does NOT count as an ALPHABET in the classical scientific sense of the term since it has an incomplete structure. does not separate letter-phoneme but SYLLABLES, except that the vowels or consonants X, Ψ, Φ were not included at all. Only the Greek alphabet progressed to the separation of syllables into letter-phoneme-sound the Phoenician A, how do you explain it since the Phoenicians had no vowels and finally it has a different phonetic quality than the Greek A All scientific terms related to writing, e.g. The grammar, syntax, tone, phoneme syllables are in Greek. if the alphabet had been found in Syria-Lebanon, it would have spread as a more practical script to Egyptians, Syrians, Arameans, Mesopotamians, but this did not happen to those who continued to write until Hellenistic times in cuneiform script. the Phoenician script is a simplification of the syllabic Cyprominoan script in Cyprus In fact, the Cyprominoan script is more complete for writing complex texts because it preserves the vowels today we cannot read Carthaginian inscriptions that were supposed to be written in the Phoenician script en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage_Administration_Inscription from the 4th century BC after the fall of the Persian Empire, the entire east from Egypt to Mesopotamia was written in the Greek alphabet. Why did they prefer the Greek alphabet and not the Phoenician script?
This makes me yearn for a simpler time, when all you needed to do to live a happy life was to rob a bank and live off the interest offered by their competitor...
imagine, that some greek dude 2300 years back, thought that we dont need fancy plesures, which back than were fancy wine cheese gold etc to be happy. and today here we are with phones computers drugs, still not satysfied with what we have in life.
and there was nothing new that he taught. every pragmatic agnostic knows these self help principles to aviod the real serious quetions such as origin, meaning, morality destiny. just be happy and forget about the biggest questions man has never been able to answer without the revelation of YHWH. if you know Yeshua and why he died on a roman cross, you will be set free from all those difficult questions that philosophers has struggled to answer.
all you need is positivity, some good old joel osteem. do not watch John macarther or R.C. sproul or read the most famous book called the bible. do not seek after truth, cos it is too dangerous to our own happyness. who need truth when we can be happy without knowing it.
Loved the video. However, his concept surrounding death is underdeveloped. It's simplistic to say that when life is over that you simply won't experience any longer, so what. He overlooks the fact that when we experience consciousness, we don't want to lose it. He doesn't appear to believe in the concept of a "Life force" if you will, that allows living things to animate the temporal body and mind. His idea of live life to the fullest and then just die and don't worry about it does not solve the dilemma of having life through consciousness and then losing it when we've experienced such a wonder of the universe.
She just got to talk about this place first session to do is like some of his cool and some of his real but overall just philosopher it's from a failed society that no longer exist in our world especially him seeing the death thing it's like we're not afraid of deathif you're afraid of death then you failed it surviving cuz you have no worries about what you've taught your kids to survive without you so how should you fear death if you know that you've done well with your children
I listen to these videos on my way to work and from work everyday. May I suggest a variety of philosophers from a variety of other ethnicities. Would love to hear from African or Latin or more Asian philosophers.
Yes that reminded me of an incedant recently i went through i need to develop courage through adversity thank you for reminding me that i need to keep moving forward
