Ah, I think I understand you better now than I had before Steve. Thanks. When you said previously (CAPS mine): "The table and chairs person forgets this...
Does somebody know the precise location of the Stoa Poikile? I'm asking because I'm in Athens for the next couple of days and I would like to try to hear if...
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/04/29/hearts__minds/ Exert: Ever since Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and...
Daniel writes: ______________ I would agree with you that to deny our own subjective experience as part of the reality we live in, would be almost insanity. I...
... Not on my view, no, precisely because I am persuaded of the truth of the Stoic doctrine that desire is connected with a perception of something as good. ...
In addition to the eight parts of the soul, the human hêgemonikon itself was characterized by four basic powers: presentation [phantasia], impulse [hormê],...
Malcolm writes: ______________ In addition to the eight parts of the soul, the human hêgemonikon itself was characterized by four basic powers: presentation...
Steve wrote: "I don’t believe us human beings can have some parts of the process without the others." ......................................... What I said...
Amos writes: ______________ I don't think that reason is just a means-end tool. That's calculation or cunning. Reason has to do with thinking, and thinking has...
Malcolm writes: ______________ What I said is that humans could not act in a coordinated way if there was not a unifying principle. I don't see how you arrived...
Steve wrote: "I don’t see why ‘bundles of data’ bothers you." ....................................................................... That refers to the...
The 4 chief Stoic virtues are temperance, prudence, courage and justice. Now, they are all very different and each has a different relation to reason. ...
Malcolm wrote: ===================== That refers to the Epicurean theory of atoms, which the Stoics opposed. The Stoics held a theory of tension (tonos) in the...
Although I was not expecting very much when I started to read Stoic Warriors, Nancy Sherman managed to fall far below my low expectations. A major problem is...
... So, you use the word 'heart' as synonymous with 'soul' or 'ruling principle'? Peace Gich PS Sorry for the late comment - been away. ... From: Malcolm...
A soul! The 'thing within us' that makes each of us a 'person'. The 'thing within us' that is constantly battling against the twin 'pulls' of materialism and...
Amos wrote elsewhere: "However, isn't a sage a kind of thought experiment?" I like this! The sage is a 'thought experiment'! Yes! Seems reasonable to me. Peace...
... So, you use the word 'heart' as synonymous with 'soul' or 'ruling principle'? ........................................................... Hi Gich, No. The...
... Hmm, do I detect a hint of sarcasm? Or have you been reading too much Plato? I can't tell, as after reading a load of student essays, my textual analysis ...
This morning I was thinking about the Stoic view that everything is material; including God, who is referred to as an inner fire that animates everything. This...
A Xenophontic ideal man should: be well educated; have the ability to make other good men his friends and to get on with people; have the traditional virtues,...
I agree with the importance of Xenophon's self-discipline Gich. But it is not an either / or skill or trait. It can be developed in degrees (when it is fully...
In his article "An Imaginary Conversation on Ethics Between a Stoic and an Aristotelian", Jan Garrett portrays the stoic view on wisdom, virtue, and happiness...
Thats very interesting. The Greek concept of sophrosune also has an aspect of "self-definition and self-improvement to it that has more resonance to todays...
I was struck by aspects of Xenophon's theory that discussions of Stoic philosophy, but not Stoic philosophy itself, often overlooks. Xenophon speaks of...
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