Self esteem has been much emphasized in the US school systems in recent years, and that is now regarded by many educators as a mistake. This article discusses...
Jan, I know of a number of different multipart concepts of the soul. I am not sure which you have in mind. The ones I am more familiar with consider the soul a...
Grant writes: "There is only one human nature, not individual natures. There is one set of objectively preferred and dispreferred indifferents. Things do not...
Hello Malcolm. Discourses 3-10 contains, of course, the poem I quoted elsewhere. Long's version differs from Higginson somewhat: "Let sleep not come upon thy...
Here is a quote worth repeating from the Wikipedia article Malcolm provided a link to (attribiuted to Ruggiero): ______________ The concept of self-improvement...
Let me add one more little bit that brings home the virtue of self-honesty that everyone will recognize: 'Know Thyself' Now, how far has modern psychology...
At the end of the Wikipedia article on self-esteem there's a link to an article from the New York Times (February 3, 2002) called The Trouble with Self Esteem,...
... I suspect that all of this self- words are illogical, since they imply the possibility of reflexive mental behaviour, and I'm not sure such a thing exists....
Dear all, I would replace *self-esteem* in Stoicism with *self-interest* which is bound to factical situations, realities needed to be dealt with, and...
PART 2 The next quotation with connect both points plus show the metaphoricity of Zeus in this particular usage, in comparing man to god and the divinity...
PART 3 I go back directly to *play* not as metaphor but as direct statement of principle. *******QUOTE Bk I, 24 20. [Oldfather] But to sum it all up: remember...
TO WHOM DO WE PLAY OUR DYING? PART 1 *****QUOTE: Epictetus, DISCOURSES Book II, 5 ‘2.How, then, shall one preserve constancy and tranquility of mind, and at...
You view is based on nothing but the public opinion of the country in which you live. To form judgments in such a way is mass psychology, not Stoic philosophy....
... which is bound to factical situations, realities needed to be dealt with, and authentic self-essessment of one's abilities and motives, and whether those...
Gich, The "poem" is Pythagorean, and found in the Golden Verses of Pythagoras: "Be not mischievous to yourself; advise before you act, and never let your...
There is a distinction between Jews and Zionists, although certain groups of Zionists and anti-Semites do their best to erase it, for opposite reasons....
... function as unified wholes. Rather, in the human constitution, the different parts of the soul frequently meet in conflict. Unity is not what we start...
Malcolm: I said before that this Forum is not a place to discuss politics, but since it is a Forum to discuss philosophy, I will call your attention to...
Jan wrote: Eventually, however, some Zionists figured out how to get one piece of territory in the midst of the Arab world, at whose expense everybody with any...
I don't think I should comment on most of either Jan's or Mark's posts, since this is not an appropriate forum for that. I'd just like to make a couple of...
... If you can get hold of Martha Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire, I strongly recommend reading the chapter in which she discusses Seneca's tragedy Medea (in...
Jan, you really do not understand. There is a distinction between Jews and Zionists, although certain groups of Zionists and anti-Semites do their best to...
Amos, you wrote: "Why do you consider that a negative view of Sharon is a negative view of Israel or of the Jews in general? It's like saying that a ...
... As you point out, Epictetus rarely uses the technical Stoic terms "indifferent", "Preferred indifferent", etc. Is it Stoicism? Well, I am putting it...
Amos, I am not sure if you, or other members, understand that is list is a public forum. That means that messages, which all go into the list's archive, can ...
Malcolm: For precisely the reasons that you mention, I never use my last name in internet. However, although my parents chose it and didn't consult my...
Well that's interesting. Just a few days ago you said, if I remember correctly, that you knew so little about the internet that you could not include a URL in...
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