Whenever I see posts or pictures about pompei I always wonder is this the aincient 9/11 for these people. or is their something else? Would it be the assassination of Julius Caesar? the battle of teutoberg? the battle of canae?
(Note: I apologize if this is the wrong subreddit, I am new to philosophy and have only read meditations and i am reading the days of socrates)
I would like to be more virtuous, not for anybody else to see but just because i feel it its the right/a great thing for me to do. How do i improve day to day my virtues, any good videos, books or matirial that i could use to improve my life? I want to seek action and actually do something, one of my friends he is a masive philosophy book addict but i feel like I read less but change more as a person to improve my life then he does because he does no action.
I apologize if i am wrong or seem stupid on this subject I only want to seek knolledge and how to be virtuous and do not aim to offend someone.
For this thought do not put edmond dantes he is my favorite character but my favorite side characters are (in no particulary order):
1.Haydee I enjoy a lot of the scenes with her in the book specifically the opera (one of my favorite chapters) and the meeting/story with albert.
Luigi Vampa not much to say other than i like his story.
Albert I find his character arch very entertaining. people hate him but i like him.
for my least favorite i hate the characters that most people like actually not sure why.
Mercedes, she betrayed Edmond by marrying Mondego
Old Dantes. I have no reason to hate him, he just pisses me off for no good reason.
Benedeto
I would like to preface this by saying I actually hated this guy intill the end, I hate this guy the most other than the last chapter he is in, the reveal, I like the way they described him like a spartan.
I hate school, i think it creates a generation of workers not thinkers. Good grades dont make you smart or gifted they are just a cope for a wasted life (I could down this path for hours but in the process i would seem like an A-hole). In school subjects are boring, when you read a book for school its boring. But when i read a book outside of school its the most entertaining thing i have done in a while. Or in my spanish class I have a D but when i learn spanish outside of school it is fun (this is why i dont beleive in ADHD i could also go down that path but dont want to seem like an A-hole). I want to learn something that would be fun to learn, nothing like a language or a instrument though or codeing.
I feel like my biggest weakness is showing my emotions, however not negative I am pretty good at not showing them (though I feel them/never have them). My biggest weakness is showing my positive emotions: laughing uncontrollably and smileing uncontrolabley when happy and I am happy every day and a happy dude. I need to stop doing this because some times it gets in the way and I need to stop this. This reminds be that stoicism is not just I don't want to say hide but concealing emotions is not just for negative but also positive. One of the greatest stoic's Chysippus died due to laughter