Intro to Philosophy: Epictetus' Enchiridion

In this lecture from my Fall 2011 Introduction to Philosophy class at Marist College, we discuss Epictetus' Enchiridion, looking at the nature of freedom, the role one's emotions and reason play, and ending by discussing social roles and duties

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Education

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• Introduction to Philosophy
• Epictetus
• Encheiridion
• Enchiridion
• stoicism
• freedom
• reason
• desire
• sadler
• marist

[gbisadler]

You're quite welcome. You ended up commenting before I got up any of the video information, including the title. This is from my Introduction to Philosophy class.

So, no, you're not likely to hear too many references to neuroscience n this series. I did talk a bit about DNA in a very broad sense a few back. In this one, I briefly mention CBT.

These are historical in a sense -- I am historian of philosophy. They're far from "purely historical" -- my aim to to help students grasp material

[RevDevilin]

@gbisadler Understood, I am when I have the time going backwards through your videos

Should I assume your main interest is in the ancient Greek field ?

Ps,hold your mouse cursor over this reply, and on the right hand side some options will appear click reply to reply to this

Otherwise you are simply adding comments to your own video :-) and I will not receive a notification of your reply

[gbisadler]

@RevDevilin well, my interests are all over the map, but they do include Ancient philosophy -- particularly Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Neo-Platonists, and Patristic thinkers. I also do some work on a few of the Medievals (particularly Anselm), some of the moderns (particularly Hobbes), and on 19th and 20th century European philosophy.

[RevDevilin]

Thank you for making these videos available

Although I am curious as to the lack of references to DNA expression, neuroscience ect , are these lectures purely historical in nature ?