How Much Is Left? | The Stoic Protocol for Your Next Zoom Call
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What is the relevance of Stoicism in today's world?
Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. How much is left? For hundreds of years, it was a glittering, powerful empire. Buildings and statues, rituals, traditions, millions of people, millions of events. And now, well after the decline and fall, how little of it remains. How little is left of Greece or Rome besides some coins, some ruins, some stories. As the great historian Jill Lepore writes, not just of the ancients, but of the more recent past as well. Most of what once existed is gone, she writes. Flesh decays, wood rots, walls fall in, books burn. Nature takes one toll, malice another.
History is the study of what remains, what's left behind. can be almost anything so long as it survives the ravages of time and war. Letters, diaries, DNA, gravestones, coins, television broadcasts, paintings, DVDs, viruses, abandoned Facebook pages, the transcripts of congressional hearings, the ruins of buildings. Some of these things are saved by chance or accidents like... the one house that, as if by miracle, still stands after a hurricane raises a town. But most of what historians study, she writes, survives because it was purposely kept in a box and carried up to an attic, shelved in a library, stored in a museum, photographed or recorded, downloaded to a server. carefully preserved or even catalogued, all of it together, the accidental and the intentional, this archive of the past, remains, relics, a repository of knowledge, the evidence of what came before, this inheritance,
How did ancient civilizations contribute to Stoicism?
It's called the historical record, and it is maddeningly uneven, asymmetrical, and unfair. But we are lucky that, say, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations survives. Someone kept that in a box and it was not lost to time. Seneca's writings, stories about Cato, fragments from Zeno. And most of all, the tradition of Stoicism continues. This philosophy that's been of use, been practiced almost without interruption, even as those buildings crumbled, even as the wood rotted and wars destroyed. And best of all, we get to continue that tradition. We get to raid that store of knowledge. And in a way, what's left of Stoicism, like what we have today, is, if anything, more robust than it was in the ancient world. There are more people today participating, listening to this podcast, getting the Daily Stoic email than perhaps ever existed in human history, maybe even combined.
The community we have with Daily Stoic Life is one I love participating in because it's a continuation of this ancient tradition. And yet, in many ways, it's bigger than ever before. I would love to have you join. You are welcome. I would love to see you in there. If you sign up, you get access to all our courses and challenges. Say annually, that's worth seven, 800 bucks. You get a really cool hardbound cover of the last year of meditations. You get a bunch of awesome stuff, including extra messages each week, all ad free. You can sign up right now at dailystoiclife.com. I'd love to see you in there. We're going to be doing some challenges here coming up very soon. That'll be included as part of your membership if you join us in Daily Stoic Life.
So just go over to dailystoiclife.com and I'll see you in there.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the relevance of Stoicism in today's world?
0:00–2:00
2
How did ancient civilizations contribute to Stoicism?
2:00–5:23
3
What types of things survive from history and how do they shape our understanding?
5:23–9:10
4
How does the survival of Stoic writings impact modern philosophy?
9:10–11:28
5
What challenges do people face with Zoom calls today?
11:28–15:10
Speakers
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