The Philosophy of Coping

25 August 2021

For millennia a person's existence was often nasty, brutish, and short. Astrology may have developed as part of a broad range of coping mechanisms.

Part of the reason astrology fascinates me is its endurance through human history. Religions and civilizations have risen and fallen but astrology in one form or another has remained.

In this 2 hour and 20 minute video, Chris Brennan, author of the book Hellenistic Astrology and Dr. James Justin Sledge, professor of religious studies, talk about the intersection of astrology with humanity's desperation to cope with world events, and what philosophers thought about the big questions of free will and fate.