About us
This group is for people with some background in philosophy who want to explore new ideas about human existence that focus on the concepts of consciousness and value as key to resolving the enigma of life. Yet everyone is welcome, interested inquirers, avid readers, outliers, undergraduates and professors of philosophy alike.
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of Stoic ethics?
·OnlineOnlineWorkshop # 9, Stoic Ethics, Series 11,
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 11.30 am UK, 6.30 am NY.You will need to view the relevant podcast below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion.
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And buy my book The Pursuit of Value from Amazon BooksThe workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube that you need to watch. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.
THIS WEEK: The main theories of Kantian, utilitarian and Aristotelean ethics have recently been subjected to considerable criticism. Yet Stoic ethics shares many features with Aristotle’s virtue ethics that has been more favourably reviewed than other supplementary theories like; contractualism, situation ethics and existentialist ethics. Can then, recent interest in Stoic ethics make a contribution to resolving problems of these theories of ethics? Or are such systems of ancient thought subject to modern critiques – like those of Hume, Moore and Mackie – that they cannot overcome? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 2, Scn. vi.
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