While I was out at Wyoming Stoic Camp last month, in the course of one of our daily group activities, a younger participant expressed a worry that many of my academic students come in to classes with.
Thanks again, Dr. Sadler. My high school students struggle with this same notion, and I feel the struggle you describe when I try to explain that good discernment and just opinion are not prejudice or arrogant condemnation. Many seem to have formed a defensive opinion that seeks to protect them from feeling judged by others (and the possibility of facing the error of their own character or judgment) by preemptively deciding that moral opinions themselves are the problem, rather than inaccurate opinions and erroneous moral judgments. This topic constantly needs the attention you give it here.
Yes, and it's been an issue for generations, it seems. Probably I ought to develop the ideas in this podcast further, both in general, and about the specifically Stoic problem, in some writings
Thanks again, Dr. Sadler. My high school students struggle with this same notion, and I feel the struggle you describe when I try to explain that good discernment and just opinion are not prejudice or arrogant condemnation. Many seem to have formed a defensive opinion that seeks to protect them from feeling judged by others (and the possibility of facing the error of their own character or judgment) by preemptively deciding that moral opinions themselves are the problem, rather than inaccurate opinions and erroneous moral judgments. This topic constantly needs the attention you give it here.
Yes, and it's been an issue for generations, it seems. Probably I ought to develop the ideas in this podcast further, both in general, and about the specifically Stoic problem, in some writings