Stoicism's Major Flaw

I look at the current trend of Stoicism through the lens of Ryan Holiday's Daily Stoic, and more broadly through the Ancient Stoic philosophers, and ask, is it really a useful guide to life today?

00:00 – Introduction to Stoicism
02:40 – The Splitting of the World
09:48 – The Fleeting Life & The Tragedy of Rome
17:41 - The Gods of Fate
25:13 - The Miserably Wise Emperor King
28:53 - Hurting Nieztsche's Feelings
37:04 - Rage, Rage Against the Dying Light
43:41 - Why Stoicism Today?

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Written & Presented By: Lewis Waller
Edited By: Paul Lapascu

Sources:

William Irvine, A Guide to The Good Life: The Ancient Are of Stoic Joy
John Sellers, Stoicism
Epictetus, Enchiridion
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit
Mary Beast, SPQR
Barry Strauss, Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
James A. Mollison (2018): Nietzsche contra stoicism: naturalism and value, suffering and amorfati, Inquiry, DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2019.1527547
Bernardo Ferro, Hegel’s Critique of Stoicism
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