Hi Amos! Thanks for that! I couldn't quite recall the words. Thanks for the Eliot too! He's essential reading. And as for, "And Did Those Feet . . ." – are...
Hello Grant! You wrote: "Rights doctrine tells us that we own such things, we have a claim to them, we are entitled to them, and we have been injured whenever ...
Robin writes: _________________ Surely the two [duties and rights, SM] are just different ways of looking at the same thing. The point is that you are in a...
Jan writes: _________________ 4. The LN in Stoicism commands us to regard life, health, material possessions, and the conduct of others as indifferent things....
Robin writes: _________________ That would be problematic [civic duties that purposely encourage implementation of the cardinal virtues, SM], since there may...
Hi Jan! If you're really interested in pursuing the matter further it might be a good idea to check out what Vasari says in his, _Lives of the Artists_. All...
Peter: No, I never sang "And Did Those Feet...". I just recommended it because I found it on the page after the first Blake poem in a poetry anthology a...
Hello all! Continuing the current human rights debate it is interesting to note that Diogenes the Cynic on being asked "what was the most beautiful thing in...
Re: APPROPRIATE ACTIONS [ta kathekonta] Posted by: "S" Gary writes: ____________ _____ All the circumstances of all 'appropriate actions' is related explicitly...
Ricardo Salles, The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. x, 132. ISBN 0-7546-3976-2. $79.95. Reviewed by Marcelo D....
Steve: The theme of developing character or virtue in youth, which you bring up, is one that interests me, having raised two children and currently being...
This isn't systematic, but I wanted to comment on Robin's idea that if you have a notion of duties, you have a notion of rights, and vice versa. I agree with...
"Now no man can say that he has anything his own by a right of nature; but either by an ancient immemorial seizure, as those who first planted uninhabited...
There's a lesson here, about how translators can introduce modern ideas while trying to make a classical text sound familiar to us, and thereby to lessen the...
Aristotle occasionally refers to "natural virtue," which is distinct from moral or intellectual virtue, and refers to the greater propensity some young people...
Jan: I think that Aristotle is right. Some children have a natural goodness, a will to make others happy, but that can easily degenerate into conformism,...
Jan writes: ____________________ If the emphasis is on the moral agent, her virtue and smooth flow of life or happiness or whatever, then it's more natural to...
Jan, Please Note: The translation I provided you with dates back to 1699, (sixteen ninety-nine)!!! It was made by one, Thomas Cockman. Regards, Peter ... ideas...
Jan, (and all,) Further to my previous post in which I pointed out that Thomas Cockburn's translation dates back to 1699, i.e., getting on for approximately a...
Note, I did not say it was a contemporary translation. I said it introduced "modern ideas." The modern period is usually dated, at least in the history of...
Nobody can deny that Cicero is very much a defender of private property in his Offices (De Officiis), or rather I should say that he is very much opposed to...
I suspect that it's not a historical accident that moral or human rights are a comparatively late development in the history of ethics, or, as one might put...
Peter: I will understand your position much better, and you perhaps may understand the puzzling refusal of Jan and myself [et al] to accept the thesis that you...
... Hi Dawn--actually that's a good question, one I would hope more conversant Stoics might try to answer. My own interest in Stoicism has been more oriented...
Jan wrote: "Note, I did not say it was a contemporary translation. I said it introduced "modern ideas." The modern period is usually dated, at least in the...
... Epictetus, in Ench. 31, says that true piety consists in believing that the gods arrange the universe for the best, and obeying their commands as a result....
Grant, So, for human rights activists to be stationed by their General in a position where they get involved in a struggle to prevent their fellow humans from...
