I respect your gentle opinion Amos but we really ought to get things in perspective here. It is par for the course for the dogmatic Stoic to resort to abuse....
Thank you very much for this post, which perfectly addresses one of my primary concerns about Stoicism--namely, how much shit is a person expected to swallow...
... This is the "Sharp Pointy Stick in the Eye Fallacy"-- 'X is not as bad as having a sharp pointy stick thrust in your eye, ergo X is not bad at all.' It's a...
Peter writes: _________________ My `personal attacks' as you call them (I do not regard them as any such thing) pale into insignificance compared with that of...
... Might I ask for a reference to someone who has proven it in print, so that I might compare his arguments against Jan's? ... What reason do you have for...
Incorporating being rude or "fighting fire with fire" defeats the entire concept of the stoicism I have understood, and gotten much out of. If you have...
I'm going to stoically--not to mention Stoically--accept this argument, since it's entirely valid and appropriate most of the time. But one thing I want to be...
I don't see how you respect your self anymore by replicating other peoples vicious behaviour? Is it not more respecting to your self to act out of what springs...
I want to thank you for challenging my beliefs; it's exactly what I was hoping for when I signed up for this list just a few days ago. But I'm afraid that, on...
... The whole point of Stoicism is to follow reason. If someone attempts to insult you, how do you respond? It depends, of course. If you have no reason to be...
A recent thread touched on issues regarding the importance of _divine_ Providence to Stoicism, and the related issue of the meaning of life. Here are a few ...
Playing chess by other means and ignoring the other's viewpoints were about the very last things I was up to here, and I'm sorry it came across otherwise (to...
Amos writes: _____________ However, this is a forum where at least in theory we gather together to learn about Stoic philosophy (and other tendencies in...
... It is not my purpose here to endorse ... Grant, I am of the opinion that it is fundamentally dishonest to believe a proposition based solely or primarily...
I intended to end my post with a quote from Epictetus, but I forgot it. Here it is: [Not my favorite translation, but I don't have my books here.] Ench. sec....
Steve: It looks like we have a chain of misunderstandings here. When I said that discussion in the forum was not a competitive chess game, I was addressing...
Amos writes: _____________ It looks like we have a chain of misunderstandings here. When I said that discussion in the forum was not a competitive chess game,...
... Could this evolutionary, default, 'auto-pilot' explanation help us somehow in forgiving and not being bitter against those whose actions are contrary to...
... I was responding to people ... My comments removed.... ... belief in a good God who cares for me is a wonderful thought. My problem is, how do I know He is...
Gich: God has awfully strange ways of showing how much He or She cares about individual people. Have you ever watched a child waste away and die little...
Grant writes: _____________ The determinist Stoics sometimes support the idea by claiming that nothing that happens is bad simply because there was no...
In reading some the secondary literature on stoicism, there seems to be an on-going debate as to exactly how to define human nature and its telos. Proponents...
... Stirring thoughts, but personally when I have a fever, I find it hard to use even the basic p=>q kind of reasoning, let alone make my reason conformable to...
My own understanding is that those who had actually practiced Stoic philosophy, as opposed to those engaged in academic analysis of Stoic texts, were less...
Gich, In response to the suffering child, you stated that you didn't think God was all powerful or all knowing, but 'did what he could' to give us a piece of...
A Filosofia Estóica O Estoicismo, o sistema filosófico em que Marco acreditava, foi, na sua origem, um produto do pensamento do Médio Oriente. Tinha sido...
