I had to read this several times before I began to understand it. Does Stoic ethics "derive" from its physics? I've never seen anyone try to lay out Stoic...
... I'm not very familiar with Hume, but it seems obvious that his use of "passion" could not possibly have been the same as Stoic "pathos", since the latter...
"jan.garrett" jan.garrett@... asked the subject question. Opinion: I doubt it in the extreme that Classical stoic philosophy corresponds to current...
I'm not so sure that a lot of the differences in ancient physics and modern physics are important to many aspects of personal philosophies. Whether string ...
Classical Greek physics or natural philosophy is, of course, over two millennia old! Explicit use of mathematics played a very small part in it. Even so, there...
13006
kwame ansah
renaissance505@...
Jun 3, 2006 6:18 pm
please i know your the moderator i have thought about this and i think i want to stop rceiving mails from very body here please instruct them to stop wriring...
Mr. Ansah, I just checked your status at www.groups.yahoo.com/group/stoics/ . Your mail options are set to Nomail, which means that you should not be receiving...
It's not up to us Kwame - we have no control over whether or not you get our emails. You'll have to unsubscribe to the list yourself or else the emails will...
I had a bit of a scare with this particular Yahoo ID a few weeks ago, so I had to shut down my Yahoo groups membership for a while. I ironed the problem out,...
Every city had its ritual that evolved from pre-historic hunting practices. The hunt/kill became the ritual/sacrifice when hunting gave way to agriculture. The...
You might look here for a more detailed explanation of the term ethical monotheism. It's used to describe the sort of supposedly divinely-inspired beliefs that...
Stoic philosophy is very close to ethical monotheism. Obviously, it has a worked out ethical philosophy, including a doctrine of duties and an account of how...
One key difference between the Stoic ethical system and Judaism, at least as the latter comes across from many of the Old Testament stories, is that Judaism is...
Stoic theism is philosophical whereas Jewish theism is personal, is this right? That is, Stoics see God in far more philosophic terms than Jews do. As you've...
... It very nearly did. Socrates and Plato denied the fundamental amorality of the Greek gods, claiming that the gods must be morally perfect. Aristotle's...
... Hmmmm. Perhaps the way to tackle it is like this. On the Stoic view, morality is not dictated as the commands of any being, divine or otherwise. Instead,...
The only thing that occurs to me is that, with most people, they'd need a visible reminder of what God's laws are supposed to be. Hence the need for a holy...
People only need fear of punishment to be ethical because they are raised to believe they do, and they are raised without education as to the benefit of...
I don't have any fear of divine punishment. When I was a Christian, that was something that I didn't like to think about. Now, having put that belief by the...
Hi, everybody! I have come across the following phrase in a popular presentation: "Functionally, the seminal reasons or principles [of the Stoics] are ...
Hi RW, I gathered from your post that you weren't among those who believed punishment was necessary for ethical behavior. But it seems you believed that others...
... believed punishment was necessary for ethical behavior. But it seems you believed that others may require this. My general point was that what you have...
This is my understanding (without doing any fresh investigation on the matter). One might say that the seminal reasons (logoi spermatikoi) are functionally...
Hello Robert, ... You are a long way from the Stoic outlook, then. The ancient Stoics believed that God and the world were one and the same. God does not so...
Hi understand that explanation of God and the world perfectly well. Maybe I should expand a bit more upon what I said earlier. Being a theist, I do believe...
Keith, I'm wondering about the expression "manifests the world." That suggests that the world is something internal to God that He then expresses in some...
The only thing that I can offer to this is that, from a Jewish perspective, all humans are co-creators with God even without being equal to God. I'm not sure...
