Interesting - religion and the Stoics is an interesting area. We cannot simply put ourselves in the past an see stoics as scientific materialists. The connection between truth and beauty is often neglected - as shown by John Keats.
40:04 too bad those organizations were not created to bring common good, but rather to facade as such in order to accomplish the selfish acts and desires of a very few. Thanks for the lecture by the way, very much appreciated.
Yes! It's where people are able to delve deeply into the profundities of life for the benefit of the rest of us who aren't able to. Be greatful for these people as they make the world a far richer and more interesting place to exist. The work many of these academics do is objectively more important to humanity than 75% of what the rest of us do all day for money, that's for sure! I say this as an unlicensed plumber with no formal education who watches at least one lecture a day, on a wide variety of topics, for the simple benefits they'll deep knowledge bestows on me in my busy life.
