I really like your pie chart... but that's a looooot of text to have on the screen. That said, I realize you want the textual citations to back you up, but putting the ideas there "in everyday language" might be better for a general audience?
GREAT first draft!!
That is a whole lot of text! Maybe provide that as a transcript below in the YouTube page?
That said, I realize you want the textual citations to back you up, but putting the ideas there "in everyday language" might be better for a general audience?
That's always part of the issue, isn't it:
Simplify or paraphrase too much on controversial material and it's easy to dismiss the paraphrase as arbitrary opinion about what Epicurus said. Even the material here, which ought to be basic, is where all the interpretation battles take place.
Include the full original text (especially with explanation) and things turn into a wall of words (which apparently didn't stop Diogenes of Oinoanda!)
It's going to take creativity to come up with a good mix, and like you said Don probably need one presentation for new students and one for regulars. This one sort of comes down in the middle of those two.
All these experiments hopefully will help us think of new and better presentations.
This is great! The combination of audio and graphics in a short video is more likely to keep people's attention!
Absolutely love this, you have a great voice for reading. In another life you would have been doing audio books on audible.
Here is another idea for a "pleasure pie". And could adjust this as perhaps the pain should be an even smaller sliver -- A life in which pleasure predominates over pain.
