Grant: Although I'm sure that you can reconcile Christianity and Stoicism, at first view they do seem to be radically different. In fact, Christianity,...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Jan 11, 2011 12:59 am
The Kingdom of God is "at hand" and will come; this is the eschatology which is presented in the New Testament by my lights. Eschatology is the study of the...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Apr 14, 2011 4:25 pm
George Long (note 4) quotes the opinion of Elizabeth Carter with regard to the Stoic goal, stated in _Discourses_ 4.4, of avoiding desire and aversion to...
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Greg Geis
brainlocked...
Apr 18, 2011 6:32 pm
Dear All I'm glad someone responded to Grant's original post. I had wondered if anyone would rise to the occasion and had even attempted to draft my own...
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Greg Geis
brainlocked...
Apr 18, 2011 6:55 pm
Apologia. I sent this post before I had finished it. Please disregard. ________________________________ From: Greg Geis <brainlocked@...> To:...
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Amos
vivepablo
Apr 22, 2011 9:05 pm
Hello Everyone, I would like to recommend two books by Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, The Foundations of Socratic Ethics and Morality and the Human Goods: An...
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Dave
ptypes
May 30, 2011 8:00 pm
Hi Greg, I can't do justice to your fine post, but I will briefly outline my personal solution to one of the problems which you discuss that I have faced in...
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Greg Geis
brainlocked...
May 30, 2011 11:57 pm
Dave I never got around to completing the post, but where I was heading to ultimately [I think!] was Alexandria and the Catechetical school.. IÂ believe it is...
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Greg Geis
brainlocked...
Jun 14, 2011 6:09 pm
http://kaletax.nl/come.php...
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brainlocked...
Jun 14, 2011 6:09 pm
http://abts.ascendprojects.net/come.php...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Jul 23, 2011 6:03 pm
Here is a link to a very long and rich excerpt (pp. 130-40) from Pierre Hadot's "Philosophy as a way of life: spiritual exercises from Socrates to Foucault" on...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Aug 2, 2011 12:56 am
I have at times been quite attached to the study of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his works. He became the epitome of a personality type which I have worked on...
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Amos
vivepablo
Aug 2, 2011 1:29 am
Hello Dave, How strange that you mention The Great Gatsby! When I used to teach English, I would always teach that book, so I know it well. It's great....
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Greg Geis
brainlocked...
Aug 2, 2011 3:05 am
Dave a wonderful start up and very interesting observations. Â I think this is a perennial truth, one embraced by both Christianity and other philosophical and...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Aug 3, 2011 12:44 am
... I agree. ... What reasons do you have for thinking that? ... I'm not much interested in discussing the proposed deficiencies of Stoicism vis-a-vis...
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Greg Geis
brainlocked...
Aug 3, 2011 1:41 am
Dave I apologize. I did a poor job of framing my argument.. I just don't think Epictetus ever posits a power outside ourselves which can bring us peace with...
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Dave
ptypes
Aug 3, 2011 5:19 pm
Greg, ... Since you seem to have a clearer and firmer apprehension of these things, I'll have to accept your apology. ... I don't know whether either Socrates...
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Greg Geis
brainlocked...
Aug 3, 2011 6:58 pm
I do too. Peace Greg Sent from my iPhone On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:19 PM, "Dave" <ptypes@...> wrote: Greg, ... Since you seem to have a clearer and firmer...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Aug 4, 2011 12:11 am
Hi Amos, ... I think you're right in saying that Gatsby pursues Daisy for what she represents in social terms. You may know, but others probably do not, that...
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Amos
vivepablo
Aug 5, 2011 12:13 am
Dave: It seems to me if one is going to seek approval from others, it's more virtuous to seek the approval of a group of wise men than of the SS. Gatsby not...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Aug 5, 2011 1:27 am
Hi Amos, ... You seem to be assuming that one is going to be seeking approval from others; so, according to you, what's important is who one is seeking ...
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Amos
vivepablo
Aug 5, 2011 1:41 am
Hello Dave: Yes, I seek the approval of people whom I consider to be wise and who will approve of me, I sense, if I too am wise. Their approval stimulates...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Aug 6, 2011 3:42 pm
Hi Amos, ... It's hard to fault you for seeking the approval of the wise, or for me to see that as a problem for you. It seems close to using approval ...
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Amos
vivepablo
Aug 6, 2011 4:14 pm
Hello Dave: I'm not much of an orthodox Stoic, but if there is one thing that is not in one's control, it is whether one loses one's job or not. In matters of...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
Aug 6, 2011 7:08 pm
... Thanks Amos. I _am_ going to try to convince myself of that. Best wishes, Dave...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Aug 10, 2011 1:50 am
 I think this is another area in which the Stoics and Aristotle agree. In response to the suggestion that eudaimonia be identified with "Honor", which to...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Aug 16, 2011 4:14 pm
Two separate issues: 1) I think the reconciliation proposed here can indeed work. One can hold that the ability to correctly assent to impressions is...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Aug 16, 2011 5:44 pm
Grant, et, al. In Chapter 7 of Romans we find the most explicit statements concerning this issue, I think, and the sentences below probably captures the...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Aug 16, 2011 11:32 pm
BTW this post may seem to contradict previous posts where I said I did not believe in the doctrine of original sin. I don't believe in that doctrine which...
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Greg Geis
brainlocked...
Aug 18, 2011 2:57 am
Grant I wrestle with some of  the same questions. I find that the Christian doctrine of theimago dei helps provide balance, and for me, a bridge [however...
