Epicurus is my main man. The Tetrapharmakos is so legit: I almost don't need anything else in life. In 4 simple principles the Big T helps me handle 90% of the BS in my life. Thank you for teaching Epicurus. Edit: I've heard about Lucretius but I haven't studied him or Romans in general. I will get around to Lucretius soon.
If you're conflicted about whether to strive for improvement or to find peace with what you have, you need to lean on the advice you shared during the aristotle lectures: golden mean! ;)
Very little of Epicurus's writing survives. It all fits in a pretty small book you can buy super cheap. "The Essential Epicurus" is a great collection. Of his works, I would personally recommend his "Letter to Menoeceus" and "The Principal Doctrines."
Just an FYI -- there's something wrong with the audio on this video. It's misaligned with the video. I am playing it from the playlist of 25 videos, and this misaligned audio is actually causing the playlist to stop playing with a spinning circle on the screen. The data above on the video says that it is 1:16:05 in length, but the misaligned audio stops and the spinning circle appears at the 1:13:59 mark. If I had to guess, the player is expecting a bit more than 2 more minutes of audio and video, but ran out of audio. Or put another way, the last bit of video data has no corresponding audio, and glitches the player as a result.
Basically wrapped up everything I’ve read about Epicurus and put it in modern terms. Truly a great teacher.
I totally agree with his thought that there is nothing to fear in death, that it is just a disappearance.
Epicurus is my main man. The Tetrapharmakos is so legit: I almost don't need anything else in life. In 4 simple principles the Big T helps me handle 90% of the BS in my life.
Thank you for teaching Epicurus.
Edit: I've heard about Lucretius but I haven't studied him or Romans in general. I will get around to Lucretius soon.
Thank you Dr. Adam Rosenfeld.
Thank you, every lecture is great and understandable for us who do not study philosophy. Keep up the good work.
If you're conflicted about whether to strive for improvement or to find peace with what you have, you need to lean on the advice you shared during the aristotle lectures: golden mean! ;)
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson
As always, a great lecture
Can you add the readings you assigned to the class to the video description? I am very curious.
Very little of Epicurus's writing survives. It all fits in a pretty small book you can buy super cheap. "The Essential Epicurus" is a great collection. Of his works, I would personally recommend his "Letter to Menoeceus" and "The Principal Doctrines."
Just an FYI -- there's something wrong with the audio on this video. It's misaligned with the video. I am playing it from the playlist of 25 videos, and this misaligned audio is actually causing the playlist to stop playing with a spinning circle on the screen. The data above on the video says that it is 1:16:05 in length, but the misaligned audio stops and the spinning circle appears at the 1:13:59 mark. If I had to guess, the player is expecting a bit more than 2 more minutes of audio and video, but ran out of audio. Or put another way, the last bit of video data has no corresponding audio, and glitches the player as a result.
Thank you so much for these lectures :-)
Thanks. I wish I was in the class 🤓