Jan wrote: ________________ The Platonic psychology contains a danger: the reification of the irrational “parts of the soul,” making these parts of the...
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DAVID EMMANUEL HERMID...
dhermida@xxxx.xxxxxxx...
Oct 1, 1999 9:10 pm
Steve wrote: "Commentary: Again, I think it would be possible to reword Needleman's Platonic example in Stoic terms. It is clear from the above that reason ...
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Paul Cousoulis
paulcsouls@xxxxxxxx.x...
Oct 2, 1999 12:35 am
... No, this division is caused by the lack of harmony of the parts, The well ordered city functions as single unit; the mismanaged ones splinter into...
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@xxx.xxxxxxxx...
Oct 3, 1999 12:56 am
I know that there are many people in this Forum who are familiar with some of the writings of the Roman-era Stoics. If this interest has spilled over into an...
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Steve Marquis
smarquis@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 4, 1999 3:44 am
Paul C wrote about how he uses Platonic psychology in his own life: ___________________ I'm struggling to achieve E Pluribus Unum in life. A balance or harmony...
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Steve Marquis
smarquis@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 4, 1999 3:07 pm
David wrote: ________________ In philosophic speculation I would value more than the possible final result, the chain of supposedly correct steps followed (the...
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@xxx.xxxxxxxx...
Oct 5, 1999 2:58 am
There are things within our power and things beyond our power. Within our power are choosing and refusing, desire and aversion. Beyond our power are the body,...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@xxxxxxxxxx....
Oct 6, 1999 6:11 am
I'm beginning to read A New SToicism by Becker. and need a few definitions, elucidations... Eudaimonia .... how do you pronounce this? What does it mean? a ...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@xxxxxxxxxx....
Oct 6, 1999 6:24 am
Check my thoughts here. Am I right in thinking this? ... The stoic beleives that the cognitive and the emotive are intertwined. That no impulse occurs without...
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F. Trenchard
F.Trenchard@xxxxxxxxx...
Oct 6, 1999 8:15 am
Geoffrey Over here, in England, we think of Texans as people who wear big hats, make a lot of money, watch lots of ball games and go in for fundamentalist ...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 6, 1999 3:12 pm
... [1] Eudaimonia .... how do you pronounce this? What does it mean? a smooth flow of life? or Joy? both? [2] Virtue ... as seen by the stoic? Is this...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@...
Oct 6, 1999 7:22 pm
Thanks Keith... Fantastic resources. -- Geoffrey Howard MFA Directing/Acting Texas Tech University Theatre Department ...................................... If...
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@...
Oct 7, 1999 2:09 am
I am going to answer your question from the perspective of classical Stoicism, and not try to correlate with Larry Becker's text. ... dipthongs in classic...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@...
Oct 7, 1999 4:23 am
I've already spoken with one member of the group on this.. but would be interested in others ideas. Are there any icons or symbols associated with the Stoic...
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Oleg Romanov
roleg@xxx.xxxxxx.xxx
Oct 8, 1999 7:29 am
Dear Stoics! Colleagues and friends! My recent reading -- Archives of XX World Congress of Philosophy (Boston, USA). I'm finding some papers dealing with...
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@xxx.xxxxxxxx...
Oct 8, 1999 9:19 pm
"Defending" is standard language in the discussion of philosophical dialectic, going all the way back to Socrates and Plato. (It is perhaps noteworthy that the...
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@xxx.xxxxxxxx...
Oct 9, 1999 11:48 pm
Thanks to Oleg for forwarding the article on the spoudaios by Alexandrine Schniewind. If the concept of the "spoudaios" is replaced in the context first of ...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@xxxxxxxxxx....
Oct 10, 1999 8:23 am
Hello all... the smiling stoic here. Why am I smiling? .. because of an epiphany moment that occurred just tonight. I am currently in a production of Largo...
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@xxx.xxxxxxxx...
Oct 10, 1999 7:45 pm
Geoffrey, Thank you for your description of how actors/directors might work as Stoics. It adds a valuable perspective that, so far as I know, we haven't heard...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@xxxxxxxxxx....
Oct 11, 1999 3:04 am
Thanks Dr. Garrett. You and Dr. Becker are sources of great inspiration to me. It encourages me to see that a learned stoic can appreciate what I'm trying to...
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IgnatiusO2@xxx.xxx
Oct 11, 1999 8:36 am
Dear Stoics, I've been receiving the posts from this group and the stoic commons for several months but I have not yet introduced myself. The reason for this ...
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Harun Küçük
harunkucuk@xxxxxxx.xx...
Oct 11, 1999 4:05 pm
I need more advice of a how-to nature; ... right ... Maybe ... Well, I felt like that too when I was first introduced to the Stoics, they have many good...
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Bertram Rothschild
bertr@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1999 5:11 pm
... Read A New Guide to Rational Living or anything else by Albert Ellis. He presents a modern version of stoicism (mixed with some other ideas). Good luck. ...
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Pmbaysd@xxx.xxx
Oct 11, 1999 7:32 pm
John-- You seemed to have hit upon one of the central issues of the life well-lived. The words of one person can only carry another so far. Epictetus is, in...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@xxxxxxxxxx....
Oct 11, 1999 10:07 pm
In my case, I first approached stoicism to see what it had to say to the art of acting. It was after all the reading that I found it sneaking into my daily ...
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Tricia
hepangel@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1999 11:53 pm
John, I am glad you spoke up and introduced yourself. I too have been reading the posts and Marcus A, Plato and Epictetus and trying to reach the point of...
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@xxx.xxxxxxxx...
Oct 12, 1999 1:12 am
Bert may still disagree with me on this, but I don't read Epictetus as assuming that he has made it to sagedom, or that he thinks it is easy to make progress...
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SDmtwi@xxx.xxx
Oct 12, 1999 3:37 am
... disasters ... life ... Hello, John. Perhaps it's the Taoist in me, but I have long felt that reading the greats, while helpful, can only take you so far....
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Bertram Rothschild
bertr@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 12, 1999 2:31 pm
... Yes! Yes! Yes! Permit me to add that we strive not to hate ourselves for our imperfections. Bert...
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Lynn Dewees
lynndewees@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 12, 1999 2:28 pm
... From: Bertram Rothschild ... presents a modern version of stoicism (mixed >with some other ideas). Good luck. I'll second this suggestion. I ended up...
