Socrates and the Stoics
Jannik LindquistThoughts and notes on the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy of happiness (eudaimonia).
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Jannik: Some people seem to think that Seneca's concept of clemency is basically similar to what we now call empathy. Apart from the fact that empathy is a word that describes an emotional attitude toward other people and clemency describes...
The Truth about Indifferents
Jannik: A fundamental question in approaching Stoicism is: How much value did they assign to preferred indifferents? Diogenes Laertius was very aware of the concept of “preferred indifferents” - so the following passage is an extremely inte...
Stoic striving and control
Jannik: It seems to me that there is a lot of confusion in relation to the Stoic concept of "Dichotomy of control" (apart from the fact that no Stoic ever called it that). That we should only care about what is "up to us" does clearly not m...
Having a virtuous friend is not an indifferent
Jannik: Can you summarize the book "Socratic Virtue" by Naomi Reshotko?
Grok 2: Here's a summary of "Socratic Virtue" by Naomi Reshotko:
Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad
Naomi Reshotko's book focuses on interp...
Scepticism, dogmatism, Socratism
Jannik: The Stoics saw themselves as true followers of Socrates. Why do you think they were so much more optimistic than him in relation to epistemology?
ChatGPT 4o: Both Socrates and the Stoics held that wisdom was closely linked to knowi...
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