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33064 jjaaeemmoo Offline Send Email May 7, 2012
3:11 pm
Would the group agree that the seeker of knowlege who loves to seek  is never truly sincere to finding an answer to what she loking for Sent from Samsung...
33065 judyw
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May 7, 2012
3:48 pm
No, I would not agree. I frequently seek knowledge but now accept that there are things I will likely never understand and can accept that with peace. Judy ...
33066 jjaaeemmoo Offline Send Email May 7, 2012
4:29 pm
Well if u found peace judy congrats  Sent from Samsung Mobile Well if u found peace judy congrats Sent from Samsung Mobile...
33067 JIM GODDARD
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May 7, 2012
4:48 pm
I wish I understood the question.  ... From: Jjaaeemmoo <jjaaeemmoo@...> Subject: [stoics] Re: Justice is nonlocal To: stoics@yahoogroups.com Date:...
33068 judyw
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May 7, 2012
6:13 pm
I do love studying and seeking understanding as it adds a zest to my life. However, I accept that there are some things that I may not ever understand. I did...
33069 Malcolm Schosha
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May 7, 2012
6:37 pm
Yes, Judy. Stoicism is a journey, not a destination. For a student of Stoic philosophy there is no last stop. Malcolm ... From: judyw <judyw1941@...>...
33070 judyw
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May 7, 2012
7:13 pm
... Perhaps I am too literal. I see death as the last stop. I have no great curiosity as to what if anything death contains. I do wish to accept the...
33071 Malcolm Schosha
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May 7, 2012
8:28 pm
Judy, death is an indifferent. It has nothing to do with virtue and so death can not be a Stoic destination, nor a direction in any philosophical sense, and...
33072 judyw
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May 7, 2012
9:49 pm
Malcolm, I write with humility because I don't deceive myself into thinking I really understand stoicism. What I think I understand is that there is a choice...
33073 Malcolm Schosha
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May 7, 2012
10:26 pm
Judy, if you want to understand Stoicism you just need to read the Stoic primary texts (what survives of them) and think about them. It takes time.  Jan has a...
33074 judyw
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May 7, 2012
10:57 pm
Malcolm, I did not consider that you were trampling on my feelings. I think that what I am looking for is not to be found in this group. I gather that this...
33075 judyw
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May 7, 2012
11:00 pm
How we respond to death is a choice....
33076 michel.daw@...
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May 7, 2012
11:13 pm
YES! Seneca, echoing Epicurus, reminds us that we should practice death. In our Stoic study groups, we 'do' Stoicism in community. It is a daily practice,...
33077 JIM GODDARD
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May 8, 2012
5:13 am
Stoic study groups. Now there's an idea. If anyone would be interested in helping set up something similar in the north of England, let me know. I live near...
33078 JIM GODDARD
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May 8, 2012
5:18 am
Hello Judy, The discussion on here is dominated by intellectual debates about points of Stoic theory, but it doesn't follow that everyone on the Forum is here...
33079 David White
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May 8, 2012
11:13 am
In the Socratic tradition one goes shopping in the marketplace of ideas every day, but always looking for a rule of virtue to be applied in ordinary life....
33080 Malcolm Schosha
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May 8, 2012
11:21 am
judyw wrote: How we respond to death is a choice. ............................................. Yes, Judy, for Stoics virtue is based on the right handling of...
33081 Malcolm Schosha
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May 8, 2012
3:23 pm
JIM GODDARD wrote: Stoic study groups. Now there's an idea. If anyone would be interested in helping set up something similar in the north of England, let me...
33082 Michel Daw
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May 8, 2012
4:50 pm
In our experience, the biggest challenges with online groups is co-ordination and commitment. Live groups tend to create a more open and fluid discussion, but...
33083 jjaaeemmoo Offline Send Email May 15, 2012
6:01 pm
Death  in probability is (a) the complete end of observation (b) the end of observation of the field of events that the the observer is observing but not the...
33084 Grant Sterling
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May 15, 2012
9:03 pm
... Virtue is a settled disposition of character--that is, it is a state in which the person has come to habitually use reason in making choices. On the Stoic...
33085 jjaaeemmoo Offline Send Email May 16, 2012
1:51 pm
Thanks for your answer grant .i think  therefor that the vurtue you have must be the moral of ur feeling on an issue in the field of events which relates to...
33086 John Emmons
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May 17, 2012
9:10 am
is virtue spiritual if so it must be permament and singular would the group agree ________________________________ From: TheophileEscargot...
33087 TheophileEscargot
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May 17, 2012
10:16 am
Well, ancient stoicism doesn't really have the concept of "spiritual". Ancient stoics thought of themselves as materialists. They thought that we think and...
33088 Christiaan Visser
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May 17, 2012
10:32 am
Stoicism must be called a doctrine of resignation and acceptance. This is clearly to be seen in the Stoic's attitude to the result of his actions. A doctor, a...
33089 jjaaeemmoo Offline Send Email May 17, 2012
11:19 am
Thanks christian for that.so therefor is virtue  omni present and universal even say in aprehistoric tribe for instance would neanderthals have had some...
33090 TheophileEscargot
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May 17, 2012
11:40 am
I wouldn't really agree that "Stoicism must be called a doctrine of resignation and acceptance", though that's a common misunderstanding of it. Stoicism...
33091 Guillaume Andrieu
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May 17, 2012
12:42 pm
Hi Christian, Theo and all. ... Theo, to expand on your answer to Christian, I wouldn't even say that. I don't see any resignation in Stoicism. For the Stoic,...
33092 Christiaan Visser
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May 17, 2012
12:59 pm
Ok, resignation is a word from the context of life seen as a game played for the beauty of it and not for the competition. Epictetus said some clear things...
33093 TheophileEscargot
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May 17, 2012
2:05 pm
Good point! I agree with you, "resignation" isn't really an accurate description even for the stoic attitude to things outside your power. I think "acceptance"...
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