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? Watch: The Big Problem With Stoicism Post Views: 90
There’s no consensus definition, but still the question teases us. It feels like it should be easy, something a fifth grader ought to be able to answer for science homework.“It does feel like it should be easy because we feel it,” Zimmer says. “Our brains are actually tuned to recognizing…
This is a lecture about an argument for the following claim: giving money to charity to not merely a good thing to do, but is *morally obligatory*. According to Peter Singer, who wrote this paper in 1972, spending money on luxuries is morally bad–it is evil. Many parts of this…
