Very much looking forward to participating in your book study forum. Am I correct in assuming that this will be a separate Substack for paying subscribers to Mindset Shifts? Exciting initiative!
I'm very honored that will participate! Thank you!
Yes, for paying subscribers only, but part of the same Substack. I'll send out a post each week with my notes on the material and then we will all go at it for the rest of the week via the comments. Week 1 will be Waterfield's introduction and Notebooks 1 and 2 of Meditations. I'm hoping we can then slow it up to a Notebook a week so we can take a deep dive. The process will be emergent, for sure. (Notebooks is Waterfield's name for chapters)
Have you thought of conducting the conversation in the Chat function here on Substack - that would seem better suited to the conversations you are looking to foster (although I am no specialist on Chat)...Looking forward to it very much although my copy of Robert Waterfield‘s edition won‘t be in my hands until I return from the US to Ireland over the weekend.
Thank you. I have looked into the chat functions. There are are a few reasons, I've decided to stick with the traditional posts, for now. One reason is that as the U grows it seems easier to build an archive for paid subscribers to have an easy reference for all the sessions. For another, it seems to push people to the phone app; something I'm trying to avoid. There are other reasons but as I said I see this process as emergent.
What do you see as the main advantage of chats?
One thing for sure is that I'm grateful that you are on board!
I know I'm coming in late to this study but looking forward to it. I've been in a few Discord groups that have discussed Stoicism. I find myself repeatedly going back to read Seneca. I'm relatively new to philosophy. Although, I do track some of Plato's ideas better now in one of Seneca's abstract letters. Whereas that one went mostly over my head for several years.
I just finished the readings yesterday while waiting for my daughter's figure skating lessons. I'm very much looking forward to this exercise. In one of my jobs, I'm a part-time, rookie politician. I was just asked to speak to a political science college class in what led me to politics and what makes a good politician. I couldn't help but muse how Marcus Aurelius would respond. I might have to work him into my speech. 😄
Very much looking forward to participating in your book study forum. Am I correct in assuming that this will be a separate Substack for paying subscribers to Mindset Shifts? Exciting initiative!
I'm very honored that will participate! Thank you!
Yes, for paying subscribers only, but part of the same Substack. I'll send out a post each week with my notes on the material and then we will all go at it for the rest of the week via the comments. Week 1 will be Waterfield's introduction and Notebooks 1 and 2 of Meditations. I'm hoping we can then slow it up to a Notebook a week so we can take a deep dive. The process will be emergent, for sure. (Notebooks is Waterfield's name for chapters)
Have you thought of conducting the conversation in the Chat function here on Substack - that would seem better suited to the conversations you are looking to foster (although I am no specialist on Chat)...Looking forward to it very much although my copy of Robert Waterfield‘s edition won‘t be in my hands until I return from the US to Ireland over the weekend.
Thank you. I have looked into the chat functions. There are are a few reasons, I've decided to stick with the traditional posts, for now. One reason is that as the U grows it seems easier to build an archive for paid subscribers to have an easy reference for all the sessions. For another, it seems to push people to the phone app; something I'm trying to avoid. There are other reasons but as I said I see this process as emergent.
What do you see as the main advantage of chats?
One thing for sure is that I'm grateful that you are on board!
I know I'm coming in late to this study but looking forward to it. I've been in a few Discord groups that have discussed Stoicism. I find myself repeatedly going back to read Seneca. I'm relatively new to philosophy. Although, I do track some of Plato's ideas better now in one of Seneca's abstract letters. Whereas that one went mostly over my head for several years.
Welcome! We've just gotten going so you are not too late at all. Down the road we will be getting into Seneca. There are many great books to come!
Robert will join.
I look forward to working with you, Robert.
I just finished the readings yesterday while waiting for my daughter's figure skating lessons. I'm very much looking forward to this exercise. In one of my jobs, I'm a part-time, rookie politician. I was just asked to speak to a political science college class in what led me to politics and what makes a good politician. I couldn't help but muse how Marcus Aurelius would respond. I might have to work him into my speech. 😄
I love it. That would be tremendous. Please keep us posted.