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The Stoicism This is a film about Stoicism and why you need more of it in your life.
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Because, as people seldom tell you, but we will quietly.
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Stoicism was a philosophy that flourished for 480 years in ancient Greece
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and Rome and was popular with everyone from slaves to the aristocracy.
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Because, unlike so much philosophy, it was helpful.
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Helpful when we panic, want to give up, despair and rage at existence.
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We still honour this philosophy whenever we think of someone as brave and without perhaps quite knowing why, call them stoic.
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There are two great philosophers of stoicism.
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The first is the Roman writer and tutor to Nero, Seneca.
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He lived between AD 4 and AD 65.
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That's right, tutor to Nero, the infamous dictator who slept with his own mother, raped young boys and just because he felt like it, asked his old tutor, Seneca,
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to commit suicide in front of his own family.
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And our other guide to Stoicism is the kind and magnanimous Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, who was forced to spend most of his reign on the edges of the empire,
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fighting off invincible Germanic hordes, but found time to write one of the greatest works of philosophy, the Meditations, in his tent at night.
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There are two problems Stoicism can help us with in particular.
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The first is anxiety.
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When you're feeling anxious about something, most people are maddening.
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They believe it's their duty to cheer you up.
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However intelligent they might otherwise be, they say things like it'll be okay, don't worry, even cheer up.
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The Stoics were appalled.
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They hated any kind of consolation that aims to give the listener hope.
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Hope is the opium of the emotions
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and must be stamped out conclusively for a person to stand any chance of inner peace.
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Because hope only lifts you up higher for the eventual fall.
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The Stoics advise us to take a different path.
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To be calm, one has to tell oneself something very dark.
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It will be terrible.
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I might have to go to prison.
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The lump really could be malign.
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I probably will be fired and humiliated, my friends almost certainly will succeed.
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But a huge, consoling stoic but.
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One must keep in mind that one will, nevertheless, be okay.
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Okay, because in the end, as Marcus Aurelius said, we are each of us stronger than we think.
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Prison won't be fun, nor we're losing one's job or being made a laughing stock, but one will get through it.
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Stoicism emboldens us against the worst fate can throw at us.
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And if you really, really can't take it, suicide is always an option.
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The Stoics mentioned this repeatedly.
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Here is Seneca.
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Can you no longer see a road to freedom?
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It's right in front of you.
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You need only turn over your wrists.
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To build up an impression of one's own resilience, the Stoics suggested one regularly rehearse worst-case scenarios.
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For example, twice a year, one should take off one's smart clothes, into some dirty rags, sleep on a rug in the kitchen floor
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and eat only stale bread and rainwater from an animal's bowl.
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And thereby, you'll make an amazing discovery.
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As Marcus Aurelius put it, almost nothing material is needed for a happy life for he who has understood existence.
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Another subject of interest to the Stoics was anger.
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Romans were a bad tempered lot.
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The Stoics wanted to calm them down, but they did so by an unusual route, by intellectual argument.
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They propose that getting angry isn't something you do by nature
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because you have a Latin temper or are somehow inherently hot blooded.
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It's the result of being stupid, of having the wrong ideas about life.
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Anger stems when misplaced hope smashes into unforeseen reality.
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We don't shout every time something bad happens to us, only when it's bad and unexpected.
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For example, you never shout just because it started raining, even though rain can be horrible, because you've learnt to expect rain.
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The same should apply to everything.
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Don't only expect rain, expect betrayal, infamy, sadism, theft, humiliation, lust, greed, spite.
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One will stop being so angry when one learns the true facts of the misery of life.
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The wise person should aim to reach a state where simply nothing could suddenly disturb their peace of mind.
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Every tragedy should already be priced in.
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We're going to leave you with the most beautiful remark that Seneca made, just as Nero's guards were grabbing him
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and shoving him into a bathroom where he was meant to take a sharp knife and kill himself.
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His wife, Polina, and two children were panicking, weeping, clinging to his cloaks.
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But Seneca turned to them, pulled a weary smile at them, and simply said, what need is there to weep over parts of life?
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The whole of it calls for tears.
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We have much to learn from the Stoics.
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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント
このC1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「PHILOSOPHY - The Stoics」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：stoic, stoicism, Seneca, philosophy, Aurelius。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が66文、単語が821語あります。 音声の長さは4:28です。 話す速さは速く、1分あたり約184語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は80%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| tutor 名詞 | /ˈtjuːtəː/ | 家庭教師 |
| weep 動詞 | /ˈwiːp/ | 泣く, すすり泣く |
| shout 動詞 | /ʃaʊt/ | 叫ぶ |
| aristocracy 名詞 | /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈstɑ.kɹə.si/ | 貴族, 特権階級 |
| humiliate 動詞 | /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/ | 辱める, 屈辱を与える |
| infamy 名詞 | /ˈɪnfəmi/ | 汚名, 不名誉 |
| invincible 形容詞 | /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/ | 倒せない, 無敵の |
| magnanimous 形容詞 | /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/ | 寛大な |
| misplace 動詞 | /mɪsˈpleɪs/ | 置き忘れる |
| rainwater 名詞 | 雨水 | |
| sadism 名詞 | /ˈseɪdɪzəm/ | サディズム |
| listener 名詞 | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | 聞き手, 聴取者 |
| madden 動詞 | /ˈmædən/ | 怒らせる |
| flourish 動詞 | /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/ | 繁茂する, 繁栄する |
| consolation 名詞 | /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/ | 慰め, 慰安 |
動画に出てくる句動詞
| 単語 | 意味 |
|---|---|
| cheer up 動詞 | 勇む, 勇み立つ |
| give up 動詞 | 降服する |
| take off 動詞 | 脱ぐ |
| turn over 動詞 | 裏返す, ひっくり返す |
繰り返し練習したい文
動画に出てくる短く完結した文です。日常会話でそのまま使えます。
- They believe it's their duty to cheer you up.
- Can you no longer see a road to freedom?
- It's right in front of you.
この動画の文法
話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。
| 文型 | 動画での表現 |
|---|---|
| 受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる | was forced · were appalled · must be stamped |
| 現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している | has understood · you've learnt |
注意したい発音
話し手はdon't, we're, can'tなど、短縮形や弱形を12回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。
- 「th」の音: thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, cloth /klɒθ/
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: shout /ʃaʊt/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, consolation /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, shove /ʃʌv/
- 長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: aristocracy /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈstɑ.kɹə.si/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/, invincible /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, magnanimous /mæɡˈnæn.ɪ.məs/, consolation /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/
日本語話者が苦手な音：
- /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/, inherently /ɪnˈhɛɹəntli/, betrayal /bɪˈtɹeɪəl/
- /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: invincible /ɪnˈvɪn.sə.bəl/, shove /ʃʌv/, eventual /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.əl/
- /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: infamy /ˈɪnfəmi/, unforeseen /ˌʌnfɔːˈsiːn/, flourish /ˈflʊ̈ɹ.ɪʃ/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, infamous /ˈɪn.fə.məs/
この動画での練習方法
- まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
- まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。tutor, weep, shoutなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。