Episode 35: The Stoic Egg

Stoicism is divided into three parts 1. Logic 2. Ethics 3. Physics. Today we'll talk about those and lay the groundwork for future discussion on the three disciplines of Epictetus.
Reading: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_89
Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://www.iep.utm.edu/epictetu/
How to Be a Stoic: https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/stoicism-101/

Philosophy is 3-parted 1. Moral 2. Natural 3. Rational Moral philoslophy keeps the soul in order, natural investigates the universe, rational keeps falsehood from creeping in and displacing truth.
Moral Philosophy is divided into three parts-Ethics
1.The speculative part which weighs the worth of each thing according to its utility.
2.Impulse, after weighing the worth of something you then create an ordered impulse
3.Actions, you make your impulse and your actions harmonize so that all three conditions are in harmony.
The natural side of philosophy is divided into two parts- Physics
1.Bodily
a.Creative
b.Created
i.Elements/Matter
ii.Cause (which moves all things and the elements)
2.Non-bodily (Metaphysics?)
3.Rational-Logic
a.Rhetoric
i.Continuous speech
b.Dialectic
i.Speech between questioner and answerer
1.Words
2.Meaning of words