What The Daily Stoic Says About Philosophy
19 episodes about philosophy
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Key Insights on Philosophy
The Younger Dryas catastrophe at 12,900 years ago aligns precisely with ancient processional cycle calculations and Plato's Atlantis timeline of 11,600 years
- Great books guarantee their own future through superiority - we still read Plato's Republic after 2,500 years because of logographic necessity
- "Don't die" moral philosophy aims to replace capitalism's death culture where killing yourself for power, wealth, and status is considered virtuous
- Socrates taught philosophy not through lectures but through how he lived, served in the army, and even died drinking hemlock
- Nietzsche's formula for greatness was 'amor fati' - loving what happened, not just bearing what is necessary
- Kierkegaard walked himself 'into a state of well-being' daily, believing no thought was too burdensome to walk away from
- Kierkegaard wrote 'I have walked myself into my best thoughts' and believed no thought is too burdensome to walk away from
- Without Marathon's outcome, there would likely be no Parthenon, no Greek tragedy, no Thucydides, and possibly no Plato's influence on theology
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