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13852 Leo Iermano
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Oct 1, 2006
10:28 am
Hi Pablo, Welcome aboard. I have only been member for about 6 months and find the forum stimulating and at times very academically minded. The learned members...
13853 leoiermano Send Email Oct 1, 2006
10:34 am
Could anyone help with other sources of stoic writings apart from the usual suspects ( Epictetus, Marcus A,Seneca and Cicero). I suspect early christian...
13854 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Oct 1, 2006
11:45 am
When one gets to this point in his or her investigation of Stoicism, I think what you should do is acquire either of the following two anthologies, A. A. Long...
13855 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Oct 1, 2006
11:52 am
While composing the reply to Leo just sent, another thought occurred to me, which seemed to merit a separate post. Another source of knowledge about the Stoic,...
13856 mattomoran Send Email Oct 1, 2006
4:59 pm
I found 2 versions, which one would you recommend, the 1st edition that is 500 pages instead of the 2nd edition which is 200? ...
13857 Keith Seddon
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Oct 1, 2006
5:35 pm
Hello Matt, ... http://www.amazon.com/Hellenistic-Philosophers/dp/0521275563/sr=8-1/qid=1159721005/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5611935-4970467?ie=UTF8&s=books ... ...
13858 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Oct 1, 2006
8:48 pm
You want vol. I of The Hellenistic Philosophers (about 500 pp), not vol. 2 (unless you want the corresponding Greek and Latin texts). Hellenistic Philosophy,...
13859 Leo Iermano
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Oct 1, 2006
8:57 pm
Thanks Keith, As I have explained in previous emails I am a newcomer to stocism and I tend to sit and watch the academic discussions on this forum. I am quite...
13860 RW
kayzr77 Send Email
Oct 3, 2006
2:31 am
... Stoicism, I think what you should do is acquire either of the following two anthologies, A. A. Long and D. N. Sedley, eds., The Hellenistic Philosophers,...
13861 Leo Iermano
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Oct 3, 2006
7:40 am
Thanks Rob Is there any modern philosophers that are closest to stoic ideas, i.e Nietzke? Cheers Leo ... Stoicism, I think what you should do is acquire...
13862 Grant Sterling
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Oct 3, 2006
5:48 pm
... Differentiating between reliable and unreliable sense data is little part of the scientific method. This is simply not something that scientists do to any...
13863 RW
kayzr77 Send Email
Oct 3, 2006
6:16 pm
... i.e Nietzke? You can try David Hume, who wrote a very good piece on natural religions in the spirit of the ancient dialogues: ...
13864 Steven Hamilton
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Oct 3, 2006
6:49 pm
Rob, The URL's you give do not work. What specific books are you referring to?? ... http://www.amazon.com/Dialogues-Concerning-Natural-Religion- ... ...
13865 Grant Sterling
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Oct 3, 2006
7:26 pm
... You miss my point. The Thomistic anti-masturbation argument may be bad teleology, and may be false. But it is perfectly comprehensible. It claims that...
13866 Robin Turner
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Oct 3, 2006
9:36 pm
... I get your point now, but in the latter (non-God) case I think it would be stepping outside the boundary of morality. Even if the teleology is true (big...
13867 marquis95960 Send Email Oct 4, 2006
12:05 am
Steve earlier: __________________ A primary purpose of the scientific method is to differentiate between reliable and unreliable sense data … ...
13868 RW
kayzr77 Send Email
Oct 4, 2006
1:00 am
... Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason," Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning," the Daodeching of Lao Tzu, David Hume's "Dialogues Concerning Natural...
13869 vivepablo Send Email Oct 4, 2006
2:39 am
I would recommend Spinoza's Ethics. Spinoza was very influenced by the Stoics, although he felt that we have less control over our passions than the Stoics...
13870 RW
kayzr77 Send Email
Oct 4, 2006
6:07 pm
There's also Philo of Alexandria. I'd forgotten about him. He might be closer to someone who's emerging from a Judeo-Christian background, but he has complex...
13871 jan.garrett
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Oct 4, 2006
10:07 pm
There's Lawrence Becker's A New Stoicism. (I think Prof. Becker is still a member of the Forum.) I would also recommend Robert C. Solomon's book on The...
13872 RW
kayzr77 Send Email
Oct 5, 2006
12:48 am
... still a member of the Forum.) Didn't this book take some of the ideas of classical Stoicism and do away with theism/minimalize its importance? I seem to...
13873 Robin Turner
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Oct 5, 2006
9:02 am
... Indeed. Rational Emotive Therapy was the original name, then they added the "behavior"; part. Ellis quotes Epictetus approvingly in several places, and the...
13874 Grant Sterling
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Oct 5, 2006
8:57 pm
... I quite agree. Unlike some others who think that Science only seeks to 'save the data', I think Science seeks to understand reality. ... I agree with this...
13875 Grant Sterling
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Oct 6, 2006
3:08 am
... Again, we see things from the opposite sides. If by 'no reason to prefer it' you mean 'no reason why it should maximally satisfy your contingent...
13876 jan.garrett@...
chrys1943 Send Email
Oct 6, 2006
3:35 am
Becker tries to reconstruct Stoicism without the theism, that's right.  If one has to have his Stoicism with a dash of theism, he will find Becker's version...
13877 Grant Sterling
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Oct 6, 2006
1:49 pm
Just to clarify: I use sadists, pedophiles, and rapists for most of my examples because: a) Almost everyone agrees that acting on such desires is wrong. b) It...
13878 DT Strain
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Oct 6, 2006
5:08 pm
... Grant wrote: Scientists almost always take for granted: 1) That they and other scientists have sensed things correctly. 2) That other scientists have...
13879 DT Strain
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Oct 6, 2006
5:17 pm
... Grant wrote: If what is good for me is the fulfillment of my desires, then what reason do I have to care what utilitarianism [of any sort] would recommend?...
13880 marquis95960 Send Email Oct 6, 2006
6:51 pm
Part 1 of 2 1) The Viability of Data Grant writes: __________________ A scientist reading an article in a journal will only extremely rarely attempt to repeat...
13881 marquis95960 Send Email Oct 6, 2006
6:55 pm
Part 2 of 2 3) When is Examination Required? Grant asks about the (possible) erroneous textbook example: ____________________ 1) What are we supposed to do...
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