Here's a Sadler's Lectures podcast episode on Ayn Rand's discussion of friendship and love. One objection to egoist ethics is that there's no real room for non-transactional relationships. Rand attempts to make a case for valuing certain other people

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/ayn-rand-the-virtue-of-1

Marcus Aurelius often references the four cardinal virtues Stoicism focuses upon, but sometimes when he lists them, there are some interesting variants to the virtues he mentions. Here's a short video about 4 key passages from his Meditations

https://youtube.com/shorts/MNx4yN1dURM?si=Tmm3LcsA5UNpYgcq

As a physician, this is one of the saddest and frustrating pictures I get to watch. Just sit down and cry. 💔

Premature newborns taken off their incubators are facing death because Israel has cut energy, oxygen and fuel to hospitals in #gaza. Five newborn babies have died already because of this.

My heart goes to our colleagues inside Al Shifa that are risking their lives and desperately trying to save these little angels.

Israel targeting Hospitals, children and health professionals is beyond cruelty. There are no excuses to justify this barbaric atrocity. None. We will never forget.

#Palestine #HumanRights #StopGenocide #SocialMedicine