Robin I recommend this advice from Seneca: "A man in the grip of difficulties should fight them vigorously." This advice is especially valuable given the...
... Hello Matt, I like to think I am making progress in the stoic sense, but I still have a long way to go. Stoicism has brought me more peace of mind, I think...
I'm still catching up. Backlogged about 175 messages or so. Rarely is a philosophical forum this active. I've had a hard time coming to grips with Stoicsm....
Paul, Having read most of the extant Seneca texts, I cannot offhand recall the location of this sentence. We need the context (and therefore the text from...
How is this even a difficult question to ask? The obvious course of action is to switch the track so that one person is harmed instead of five. Is there any...
... Well, this illustrates some of the problems I tried to present in the general and his sick daughter case. BTW, for an amusing spoof of the runaway trolley...
... It gets more difficult when you introduce the fat man variant. As the saying goes, "It ain't over till the fat man swings." Robin -- No virus found in this...
Here, here! Jan, too. Academics that speak ordinary English. Fancy that. <G> As well as all the other contributors, little time though I may have to devote to...
Teachers in Buddhism vary greatly. And what they teach is not necessarily what one would expect, or necessarily understand (at least for some time). Zen, for...
I dislike questions like this since they are so black-and-white. Life is never this simple. Presumably it would depend on the Stoic. Speaking for myself, I'd...
I have to admit sympathies for Epicureanism. It has some attractions. There are perhaps tortures that hit 100, although mental rather than physical. In an...
While I was in philosophy graduate school at the Univ of Minnesota in the 1970's G.E.M. Anscombe was a visiting professor for a semester. She gave a course on...
... Nearly all of these examples are designed to show up the weak or controversial points in ethical theories, and in particular to show where different...
Keith's assessment of the ancient Stoic attitude is correct. The question is whether this attitude is adequate today. Especially during the Roman imperial era,...
... I think the Roman Stoics' view of social justice was inadequate, but not nearly as inadequate as you do, so I'll offer a bit of a defense. The Roman...
Hello All, I think it is very important to draw a distinction between the Stoic view of justice and the political/economic ethos of the empire. By the time...
One advantage of attending a major philosophical meeting (Western Division of the American Philosophical Association in Chicago, April 26-29) is that on the...
... Thanks for the tip. I'll see if I can persuade our library to get a copy. As I might have mentioned, I teach English, not philosophy, but each of my...
Mitsis is a very intelligent scholar and he knows the ancient source material well, but his interpretation of the Stoics as sources of natural (and hence...
Is it possible to be anything but obscure about Wittgenstein? --Michael ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?...
Since at least one person must die, presumably the rational Stoic will flip the switch. Why then is it wrong to kill one healthy person in order to use his...
... I *think* I can answer the question about the healthy person who has organs in him that could sive the lives of five other people. When formulating ethics...
Ok I've thunk on it. Here's my take, and it's very similar to Adam's... I asked myself, why does it seem so right to choose the one guy over the five in the...
Hello all, I've become interested recently in writing some articles for magazines; or perhaps contributing some articles currently on my philosophy website to ...
I have not yet had the time to do much research on the references you have all been making to the origins of stoicism, and to tell the truth, I dont really...
Jan, I posted a response to your arguements and it hasn't shown up. Did I submit it incorrectly or is there another problem? Let me know either way. Joe ...
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