Marcus Aurelius and the Guiding Principles of Stoicism

Really excellent content... but could I suggest you make some improvement to the audio. I'm not sure if it's your recording equipment or simply your voice / diction / enunciaton, but the audio can be really difficult to understand through patches of the video... kinda like you're mumbling. Other than that, thank you and keep up the great work!

You should work on your diction.

your perception is your reality

focus on what you can control and let go of what you cannot control

you are you that is your power

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy

Albert Einstein said it be best don't be disappointed when people don't want to help you it's because of them I am doing it myself

We are too much acustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

I disagree with the notion that wise acts are emotionally-detached. Rather, the combined efforts of logical thinking and emotion. After all, if we had no emotions, then we be bacteria. But even bacteria makes decisions based on what happens to it. Also, I disagree with loving ones fate to some degree, since it's an excuse for not improving the self. We should be thankful for the things we have now that we are thankful for (just spend time to thank it).

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." The great emperor Marcus Aurelius

I feel like Buddhism (although it's not really an "ism"), was a precursor to Stoicism or directly or indirectly lead to it; both philosophies arose within around 100 or so years of each other and given then that extent of the Greek Empire under Alexander the Great around 330 BC had included India, it's likely that whispers of teachings of the Buddha-Dharma reached Greece and influenced Hellenistic and Stoic philosophies, or am I ill-informed?

That is game for the elite, and the supreme ones, who saved me.

not for humans.

This is one of the best videos I've seen in months. Wish more content creators could teach and be entertaining. Thank you.

Wooww

I watch A lot of stoic videos, as far as i see you delivery it the best, keep adding more

Stop mumbling

im so thankful i found this channel

“Confiscated wealth from the upper class to maintain the economy” so based

Yeah, stoicism is really cool and stuff, but to me this comes more like a tool to handle dificult situations than a philosophy of life, once you take things are the way they are just accept it and change the way you percieve it, you get kinda stucked, like, you dont seek to changes or new perspectives, you just accept

The obstacle IS the way!

Being a stoic is for idiots. If someone kills your son, wouldn't you want revenge? Stoicism is man's futile effort to be unaffacted of life's miseries. By simply changing your perception is for the weak who cannot do anything. Hate, anger, disgust are fuels that must be harnessed to get a beautiful outcome.Marcus was a powerful man so he can afford stoicism, but not regular people.

Ergo Stoicism is garbage with some useful parts.

Pls make more videos about stoicism, it's amazing. Thank you very much. we appreciate it

Stoicism should be thought in schools at very early stages. It’s an easy cure for depression and it breeds thinkers

The pictures you show when mention Epictetus is not Epictetus, but Diogenes.

Why the two universes come to me and i do not have to go out to them
Explanations?

A.D. not C.E.

My ruler that made me straight...

I have never been able to control my feelings, so I stopped trying. After so many years of feeling freely, I just got used to them. So I don’t control feelings, I just know what to expect.

Why doesn't apature have 10s of millions of subscribers ... this channel is amazing 👏

Everybody should read Epistulae ad Lucilium by Seneca.

I had my headphones in during intro thought I was getting shot at

Sounds alot like John 2 whipping the robbers and pigeon sellers turning tables over

Marcus was before Christ evolved

I know this is out of the topic. But the name "Marcus Aurelius" is such a badass name

🔐 *my key takeaways*

- Your power is your perception
- Rise above
- The obstacle is never in the way, the obstacle is the way
- Amor fati (love your fate)
- Memento mori (remember you will 🎲)

Widened my Horizons ❤

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"whatever happens to you, you must love it because it is your fate". I have a hard time grasping this. What if what happens to you today is one of your children dies? Are you supposed to love that this has happened to you because this is your fate? This is a serious question. Because they say you are supposed to love everything that comes your way.

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I live how these videos make you think

This vid was so educational and so well-made. I can tell you put a lot of effort into making this vid. Thank you! 💗💗💗

A person who has no greed can not be bought.
I learned these concepts from my dad. He never read a philosophy book, but somehow developed these characteristics himself. He was a great man in the best stoic way. I wish he were here to laugh when I told him he thought like an emperor.

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