Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied

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Caleb Ontiveros and Michael Tremblay discuss how to build resilience, develop virtue, and make sense of the world through Stoic philosophy. One episode a week. Get the Stoa app: www.stoameditation.com/pod [https://www.stoameditation.com/pod] Get the Stoa Letter: www.stoaletter.com/subscribe [https://www.stoaletter.com/subscribe?utm_source=podcast_description] www.stoaletter.com

  1. 21 июл.

    Stoicism in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey (Episode 230)

    Is Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey more Stoic than Homer’s? Caleb shares a quick solo take. A look at the movie through a Stoic lens. There are “spoilers” – don’t listen yet if you don’t want to hear about Nolan’s approach. (00:00) Introduction: A Stoic Take on Nolan’s Odyssey (03:50) Gods as Nature, Not Beings (07:40) Responsibility and Hard Choices (10:10) Perseverance: Seneca on Odysseus (11:10) The Sirens and the Drive to Know (12:30) The Suitors: Justified Revenge? (16:20) Exile and the Problem with Xenia (19:40) Calypso, the Lotus, and Therapy Culture (22:40) Final Verdict Download the Stoa app (it’s a free download): https://stoameditation.com/pod If you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we’ll set you up with a free account. Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/ Get full access to The Stoa Letter at www.stoaletter.com/subscribe

    Stoicism in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey (Episode 230)

  2. 7 июл.

    Men Without Chests | The Abolition of Man Part I (Episode 229)

    Can you say a waterfall is sublime? Or are you just describing your feelings? C.S. Lewis thought this question mattered more than it looks. In the first chapter of The Abolition of Man, he argues that modern education smuggles in a dangerous idea: that value judgments are just reports of emotion. Nothing to debate. Nothing to get right or wrong. Caleb and Michael work through Lewis’s argument in this first episode of a series on the book. They cover his case for objective value, what he calls the Tao, and his warning about producing “men without chests” — people with sharp intellects, strong appetites, and nothing in between. (00:00) Introduction: C.S. Lewis and The Abolition of Man (06:30) The Green Book and the Waterfall (10:10) Emotivism, Expressivism, and Subjectivism (13:40) The Fact vs Opinion Distinction (19:00) Education as Cultivating the Right Feelings (25:40) The Way, the Tao (28:50) The Head, the Belly, and the Chest (34:50) Dulce et Decorum Est (43:20) Are Aesthetic Judgments Objective? (47:50) Men Without Chests (52:00) Takeaways Download the Stoa app (it’s a free download): https://stoameditation.com/pod If you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we’ll set you up with a free account. Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/ Get full access to The Stoa Letter at www.stoaletter.com/subscribe

    Men Without Chests | The Abolition of Man Part I (Episode 229)

  3. 23 июн.

    Why You Should Be A Skeptic With Massimo Pigliucci (Episode 228)

    In this episode, Caleb talks with Massimo Pigliucci about his new book, How to Be a Happy Skeptic, and the thinker at its center: Cicero. They trace skepticism from Pyrrho’s radical doubt to the Academics, who found a better path. You don’t need certainty. You need to know how sure to be, then act (or not). The Stoics and skeptics argued for decades over whether truth leaves a mark you can trust. What happens when you admit you might be wrong? Read How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic. (03:00) Pyrrhonism: suspend judgment, find peace (06:50) The Academics go back to Socrates (08:40) Fallibilism: senses and reason both fail (10:20) Carneades and the degrees of probability (18:00) Skeptics versus Stoics: the cataleptic impression (22:20) Certainty, polarization, and the case for doubt (25:30) Cicero, friend and critic of the Stoics (27:00) On Divination: the first book against pseudoscience (31:40) On Ends and the gift of aporia (37:00) Virtue, friendship, and the good life (41:50) Seneca and skeptical Stoicism (44:50) Cicero’s life and death (55:40) Being useful to others Download the Stoa app (it’s a free download): https://stoameditation.com/pod If you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we’ll set you up with a free account. Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/ Get full access to The Stoa Letter at www.stoaletter.com/subscribe

  4. 2 июн.

    Stoicism and Buddhism 101 (Rerun)

    People love to pair Stoicism and Buddhism. Both blame suffering on desire. Both teach a kind of meditation. Both are about 2,500 years old. So how similar are they, really? Michael and Caleb run a Buddhism 101 for Stoics. They start with the Buddha: a prince who had everything, saw old age, sickness, and death for the first time, and walked away from the palace to figure out why we suffer. From there it’s the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and the Middle Way. (00:00) Introduction (06:28) The Buddha’s Founding Parable (14:24) The Four Noble Truths (19:59) The Middle Way and the Eightfold Path (31:30) The Evolutionary Case for Buddhism (40:09) Where Stoicism and Buddhism Overlap (48:02) Where They Split Apart Download the Stoa app (it’s a free download): https://stoameditation.com/pod If you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we’ll set you up with a free account. Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: tno Get full access to The Stoa Letter at www.stoaletter.com/subscribe

  5. 19 мая

    Excellence Is Boring (Episode 227)

    What makes some people excellent at their craft and others just average? Michael walks through a classic 1989 sociology paper on Olympic swimmers and pulls out three lessons that apply directly to Stoic practice. The answer is not what most people expect. It is not extreme effort. It is not raw talent. Excellence turns out to be mundane. It is how you do the boring things, every day, for a long time. And when the pressure is on, excellence is just doing those boring things well one more time. (00:00) Introduction: What makes someone excellent? (02:50) Lesson One: Excellence requires qualitative differentiation (06:40) Separate worlds: how levels differ in kind, not amount (07:40) Lesson Two: Talent does not lead to excellence (09:40) Talent is indistinguishable from its effects (11:00) Talent as a floor, not a ceiling (14:20) Lesson Three: Excellence is mundane (14:30) Mary Meagher: show up on time, nail the turns (17:40) Long-term motivation is boring (18:30) Excellence is doing the boring stuff under pressure (20:40) How refusing the mundane caps your ceiling (23:10) Summary of the three lessons (25:50) Takeaways for Stoic practice: making good use of impressions Download the Stoa app (it’s a free download): https://stoameditation.com/pod If you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we’ll set you up with a free account. Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/ Get full access to The Stoa Letter at www.stoaletter.com/subscribe

  6. 5 мая

    Caleb's Life Philosophy (Episode 226)

    What’s the core of Stoicism worth keeping? And where does it fall short? Caleb shares his life philosophy in this companion to Michael’s earlier episode. He builds the case for Stoicism from the ground up, then turns it on itself. If happiness has to be up to us, what does that say about the rest of life? And what do you do with the parts of human experience that don’t fit neatly into propositions? The thread running through it all is humility. Stoicism gives you a strong frame. It also asks you to admit what you don’t know. (00:00) Introduction (03:30) The Core Argument: Happiness Must Be Up to Us (13:30) Character and How We Think (15:30) Human Nature: Rationality and Sociability (25:30) Objection One: Life Is Tragic (31:30) Objection Two: Reason Doesn’t Capture Everything (41:00) Objection Three: Non-Cognitive Knowledge (48:50) Summing Up Download the Stoa app (it’s a free download): https://stoameditation.com/pod If you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we’ll set you up with a free account. Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/ Get full access to The Stoa Letter at www.stoaletter.com/subscribe

  7. 21 апр.

    Reflections from Athens

    Caleb shares reflections from a recent pilgrimage to Athens. He walks through the ruins of the Stoa Poikile, the painted porch where Stoicism was born, and finds the irony of a philosophy of impermanence enduring in stone fragments thousands of years later. He visits the Acropolis, the Lyceum where Aristotle taught, and thinks about what makes Athens worth visiting today. (00:00) Visiting the Stoa Poikile and the Athenian Agora (05:00) The Acropolis, the Lyceum, and Plato’s Academy (06:30) Edward Lear and Athens as an imaginary city (08:40) Athens as a platonic form Download the Stoa app (it’s a free download): https://stoameditation.com/pod If you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we’ll set you up with a free account. Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/ Get full access to The Stoa Letter at www.stoaletter.com/subscribe

  8. 7 апр.

    Musashi’s Book of Five Rings: The Water Book (Episode 224)

    Your mind should be quietly vibrating. Not tense, not slack, not leaning in any direction. That’s Musashi’s opening instruction in the Water Book and it sounds a lot like what the Stoics were after. Caleb and Michael continue their series on Musashi’s Book of Five Rings with the second book: Water. Where Book One laid out general strategy, this one gets into the craft itself: swordsmanship as a lens for how to carry yourself, think clearly, and stay locked onto what actually matters. (00:00) Introduction to the Water Book (03:40) Mindset: Quietly Vibrating, Not Leaning (07:50) Don’t Let Your Body Control Your Mind (10:50) Spirit vs. Body Size (13:00) Posture as Evidence of a Strong Mind (18:00) Make Your Everyday Stance Your Strategic Stance (21:50) Purpose Over Technique: Cut the Opponent Down (25:10) Bruce Lee, the UFC, and Rejecting Styles (28:00) Telos: The Ancient Word for “Keep Your Eye on the Ball” (31:30) Positions That Exist and Don’t Exist (35:00) Precepts as Boats: When to Let Go of Rules (38:30) Rhythm in Fighting, Conversation, and Life (42:00) Offensive and Defensive Lessons on Disruption (44:50) Forge Yourself with a Thousand Days of Training Download the Stoa app (it’s a free download): https://stoameditation.com/pod If you try the Stoa app and find it useful, but truly cannot afford it, email us and we’ll set you up with a free account. Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/ Get full access to The Stoa Letter at www.stoaletter.com/subscribe

    Musashi’s Book of Five Rings: The Water Book (Episode 224)
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Caleb Ontiveros and Michael Tremblay discuss how to build resilience, develop virtue, and make sense of the world through Stoic philosophy. One episode a week. Get the Stoa app: www.stoameditation.com/pod [https://www.stoameditation.com/pod] Get the Stoa Letter: www.stoaletter.com/subscribe [https://www.stoaletter.com/subscribe?utm_source=podcast_description] www.stoaletter.com

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    Caleb
  • Годы выхода
    2022 - 2026
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