Cato the Younger — The Father of Roman Stoicism

This is so good!! And the accent so helps!!

It's so difficult to describe Cato for me, I want to say an inspiration but that doesn't seem exactly right. Great video.

You claim:

Socrates’s death was suicide. While this seems to align with Nietzsche's view.

Nietzsche also said:

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!
Die at the right time: so teacheth Zarathustra.
To be sure, he who never liveth at the right time, how could he ever die at the right time? Would that he might never be born!—

Guy was a pain in the ass. Read the trial transcripts they have about consular elections

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Too bad our schools, churches, and culture doesn't teach relevant things and ideas such as this. Cato could be taught as a role model for all of us to follow.

Instead we're taught to scroll, to obsess over who to date and have dirty s*x with and to trap ourselves with, to shop for material, cheap, plastic crap, to worship fantasy characters sitting on clouds ....

Never have I felt so much satisfaction from a video. Right on point and perfectly delivered. Instant subbed! Kudos!

Bruh u killed this

Great presentation. I was recently introduced to Cato in Seneca's Moral letter CIV to Lucilius:

“When his country was in a state of constant change, no one ever saw a change in Cato. In every situation he was placed in, he showed himself always the same man, whether in office as praetor, in defeat at the polls, under attack in court, as governor in his province, on the public platform, in the field, or in death itself. In that moment, too, of panic for the Republic, when Caesar stood on the one side, backed by ten legions of the finest fighting men and the entire resources and support of foreign countries as well, and on the other stood Pompey, by himself a match for all comers, and when people were moving to join either the one or the other, Cato all on his own established something of a party pledged to fight for the Republic.”

Excerpt From
Letters From a Stoic
Seneca
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American Cato? Never heard Washington referred as such! American Cincinnatus, yes.

Appreciate the insight. Well done.  

One question: Could you please share sources of historians who think that AntiCato was one of Julius Caesar's greatest missteps? Thanks!!

Excellent Presentation. Need to see what else you have in the cupboard!

Great men suffer greatly because great men make great things.

Great work dude

Good topic. Nice script but problematic articulation

Wow. That's all.

Beautiful delivery. Enjoyed my minutes with this teacher.

Love your channel, man. Thanks.

Interesting to think that when you refer to both men as having a tendency to "drink and philosophize" what we may be seeing is that "drink" must have been the "spiced wine" that was the only drink in town at the time. Alcohol as we currently enjoy it didn't exist as the distillation process was a later discovery. Lots of interesting research into trying to understand if that "spiced wine" had any other properties - psychedelic, empathinogenic, etc. Could substances that create altered states, (what we would now consider being HIGH AF!) be partially responsible for the ideas and concepts of these two men?

Your video was clear, condense, and to the point.
Thumbs up for your effort. Greetings from Greece

Awesome!🕊🦋

Thank you for all your videos, keep up the great work!

Awesome, That you do videos on ancient philosophers. I believe they are way oversimplified when we get to know them in school.

Great work and a great man - thanks fo this and thanks for producing such quality content on topics in philosophy.

Fascinating!

Nice job on this, Cato is my hero, his story is so relevant to my own. It's the suffering that virtuous people are willing to deal with to show how it looks to others as well as to know it deeply within themselves. It's not necessarily about forcing oneself into suffering but not allowing oneself shortcuts that cut short others for one's own gain.

- Your Quality Apologist

I just realized something.

I always thought the pursuing of virtues is very good and should be done just because it's the best thing to do, but you might not be able to ever see if what you did actually had a lasting effect on the world.

But if the story you shared is accurate, you can see that it CAN have a lasting effect. You said the soldiers were not made rich, but they still adored him for being a good example of virtue.

So my realization is: You can see if you're able to have a lasting effect on people, if the people you deal with, that would otherwise choose money, or some other superficial gratification, are instead loyal to you even though you never promise them anything other than your pure honest friendship and dedication.

That was really inspirational. I didn't know that about Washington