Painted Porch Podcast

In episode 7 we have an interview with Erik Wiegardt [43:30] about the Society of Epictetus. Also we discuss the Tablet of Thebes [17:20] and commonplace books [29:45].

LInks mentioned in this episode:

• Steven Umbrello’s blog and podcast Stoically Speaking
• Steven Umbrello’s article on vegetarianism at Stoicism Today
• Massimo Pigliucci’s new blog How to be a stoic
• (Sorry, I don’t have a link to the explanation of Erik Wiegard’t graphic “Phenomenon of Existence – POE)
• Quassim Cassam’s Aeon article on moral thinking
• Virtues of the Mind by Linda Zagzebski
• Greg’s blog post on commonplace books Enjoy Tranquillity
• Society of Epictetus
• newstoa.com

Credits

• Intro and outro music: Southern Spirit by Still Pluto
• Interview bumper: Catch the Sun by Rhanee

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We have an extended interview this month with Massimo Pigliucci [19:15] who identifies ideas in Stoicism that atheists might find troublesome.

LInks mentioned in this episode:

• Gabriele Oettingen – Rethinking Positive Thinking  [02:30]
• Mental Contrasting Wikipedia article [03:35]
• My Meditations by Mike Dariano [04:50]
• John Sellars’ blog – Miscellanea Stoica [06:15]
• Stoicism and emotions – video by John Sellars [06:50]
• Stoic Camp [07:20]
• Art of Living by John Sellars [07:15]
• Unconference Wikipedia article [10:45]
• Dealing Stoically with Tragedy – blog post by Tanner Campbell [17:00]
• Rationally Speaking podcast – Massimo Pigliucci and Julia Galef [19:50]
• Scientia Salon article on Objectivism [38:45]
• Answers for Aristotle by Massimo Pigliucci [51:00]

Credits

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• Interview bumper: Catch the Sun by Rhanee

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In episode 5 we have an interview (37:25) with comedian Michael Connell and Greg has a segment on tech overload (20:10).

Links mentioned:

• 03:30 Stoicism Today article by Jenny Horner
• 13:27 Stoicism Today article by Mark Vernon and Tim LeBon
• 14:10 Youtube videos by Gregory Sadler
• 14:40 Science Daily article on morality
• Michael Connell channel on youtube
• Michael Connell website

Credits

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Blogger/podcaster Tanner Campbell joins us for the entire episode as a guest host.  We discuss death with dignity, selective renunciation, dealing with illness (0:37:00), the ebola panic (0:29:00) and have an interview with William Irvine (1:02:15), author of A Guide to the Good Life.

• The Problem with Positive Thinking – New York Times (0:10:50)
• The Stoic Professionals on LinkedIn – (0:09:15)
• Brittany Maynard – Death with Dignity (0:17:45)
• Brittany Maynard Fund – Compassion and Choices (0:21:00)
• Epictetus is My Therapist – Tanner Campbell’s blog and podcast (0:01:30)
• Tanner Campbell – Twitter profile
• Massimo Pigliucci – Blogging Heads video (0:04:20)
• Soylent 1.0 – Wikipedia article on the food substitute (0:55:40)

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Episode 3 is ready for download!

Beginning with the next episode, we will no longer be using the feedburner link to handle our syndication.

This month we talked about Panaetius and his influence on Roman Stoicism. Greg gave an introduction to the Lift.do website that helps people to develop good habits. In our interview, Matt asks Patrick Ussher about Stoicism Today — the blog, the book and the organization.

Links

• Scientia Salon post on Stoicism by Massimo Pigliucci
• Rationally Speaking podcast
• Stoicism Today: Selected Writings volume 1
• Why I hope to Die at 75 Atlantic Monthly article by Ezekiel Emmanuel
• Lift.do Habit formation
• Stoicism Today blog
• De Officiis – Cicero

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Episode 2 of the PaintedPorchPodcast is now available. In our interview this month, Dustin Brandt gives us an overview of reddit and r/Stoicism. Also, the podcasters give a little more detail on who we are and why we are podcasting.

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The first episode of a new Stoic podcast!

Interview

Pastor Michael Jones from Zion Baptist Church in Taylor, MI discusses how Christians can adopt Stoic philosophy.

News

Stoicon

James Stockdale documents

• http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/stoicism1.pdf
• http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/Stoicism2.pdf

Topics

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius audio book from audible.com reviewed by Greg.
• Translation of Meditations by Robin Hard.

Follow Matt at Immoderate Stoic

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