Charlie Edmondson audiobook demo - A Guide to Stoicism
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Hello, My name's Charlie Edmondson, and this is my audiobook voice. Riel. This is an excerpt from a Guide to Stoicism by sent George stock philosophy among the Greeks and Romans among the Greeks and Romans of the classical age. Philosophy occupied the place taken by religion among ourselves. Their appeal was to reason not to revelation to what our Cicero in his offices are we to look for training in virtue, if not to philosophy. If truth is believed to rest upon authority, it is natural that it should be impressed upon the mind from the earliest age, since the essential thing is that it should be believed. But a truth which makes its appeal to reason must be content to wait til reason is developed. We're born into the Eastern Western or Anglican Communion or some other denomination. But it was of his own free choice that the serious minded young, Greek or Roman embraced the tenets of one of the great sects which divided the world of philosophy. The motive which led him to do so in the first instance, may have been merely the influence of a friend or a discourse from some eloquent speaker, but the choice once made was his own choice, and he had here to it. As such, conversions from one sect to another were quite where occurrence. A certain dine isis of hair Clear, who went over from the stoics to the Syrian eggs was ever afterward. Known as the deserter, it was difficult to be independent in philosophy, as it is with us to be independent in politics. When a young man joined a school, he committed himself to all its opinions, not only to the end of life, which was the main point of division. But as to all questions on all subjects. The stoic did not differ merely in his ethics. From the epicurean he deferred. Also in his theology and his physics and his metaphysics. Aristotle, as Shakespeare knew, thought young men unfit to hear moral philosophy. And yet it was a question, or rather, the question of moral philosophy, the answer to which decided the young man's opinion on all other points. The language, which Cicero sometimes uses about the seriousness of the choice made an early life, and how a young man gets untrammelled by a school before he is really able to judge reminds us of what we hear said nowadays about the danger of a young man's taking orders before his opinions have formed to this. It was replied that a young man only exercised the right of private judgement in selecting the authority whom he should follow and having months done that trusted to him for all the rest with the analogue of this contention. Also, we are familiar in modern times. Cicero allows that there would be something in it if the selection of the true philosopher did not. Above all things require the philosophic mind. But in those days it was probably the case, as it is now that if a man did not form speculative opinions in youth, the pressure of affairs would not leave him leisure to do so later.