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...
Could anyone help with other sources of stoic writings apart from the usual suspects ( Epictetus, Marcus A,Seneca and Cicero). I suspect early christian...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
... 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,...
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...
... Differentiating between reliable and unreliable sense data is little part of the scientific method. This is simply not something that scientists do to any...
Rob, The URL's you give do not work. What specific books are you referring to?? ... http://www.amazon.com/Dialogues-Concerning-Natural-Religion- ... ...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
... Indeed. Rational Emotive Therapy was the original name, then they added the "behavior" part. Ellis quotes Epictetus approvingly in several places, and the...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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...
... Grant wrote: Scientists almost always take for granted: 1) That they and other scientists have sensed things correctly. 2) That other scientists have...
... 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?...
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...
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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