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16399 Kevin Collins
kevin11_c Send Email
Aug 1, 2007
12:19 pm
Jan, Below is my response: 4.0312 The possibility of propositions is based on the principle that objects have signs as their representatives. My fundamental...
16400 Dawn
darknesslight82 Send Email
Aug 1, 2007
7:50 pm
-To me the soul is what keep your wiil in motion. The Man him self put us here for a purpose to live and see wha we do with our borrowed time.with out it there...
16401 Dawn
darknesslight82 Send Email
Aug 1, 2007
8:00 pm
What are your views of a free spirit? Would you encourage a person that is one or would you stomp the flame that they carry. To me a free spirited a person is...
16402 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Aug 2, 2007
12:31 am
Dawn: I'm not at all sure what you mean by a free spirit. I've known some people who called themselves free spirits who considered themselves above such...
16403 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 2, 2007
12:33 am
I suspect you are not asking about the classical Stoic views on this topic. If you are, we can address that. My guess is that you are assuming a very modern,...
16404 Steve
marquis95960 Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
8:49 pm
Dawn dares us: _______________ What are your views of a free spirit? Would you encourage a person that is one or would you stomp the flame that they carry. To...
16405 Steve
marquis95960 Send Email
Aug 3, 2007
9:42 pm
I saw an obvious bias in the following statement of my previous post I would like to correct: _______________ Both unexamined contrariness and unexamined...
16406 murrell91910 Send Email Aug 3, 2007
10:33 pm
Hello Steve, Bravo! Loved your response to Dawn. Quite worthy and well thought-out. Respectfully, --Beatrix...
16407 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
2:40 am
Steve: I just like to add that Socrates, out of respect for the laws of Athens (Crito), laws which have unjustly condemned him to death, accepts his...
16408 Leo Iermano
leoiermano Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
4:10 am
Well put Steve... It is a common criticism of stoicism from my friends who argue that it is a philosophy that: Has no passion where followers sit on the fence...
16409 peter
phrygianslave Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
11:31 am
I wonder did Socrates really play by the rules? Wasn't he in fact a dangerous subversive, a threat to the rule of law, one who was openly opposed to democracy...
16412 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
2:47 pm
Good Morning Peter: Up to your old contrarian tricks again, I see. Socrates was a subversive, but not a traitor. There is a huge difference between...
16413 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
5:21 pm
Perhaps it's not seriously off the mark to say that the essence of classical Stoicism is good character, or virtue, although the classical Stoics preferred to...
16414 peter
phrygianslave Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
5:43 pm
Hello Amos! Nice to hear from you. Yes, and there was me thinking I was the only contrarian on this forum when Jan confesses to having been one most of his...
16415 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
5:46 pm
It's a tricky business trying to pin down Socrates, since we have to rely for our knowledge of him on others, in the case of Aristophanes a hostile witness,...
16416 peter
phrygianslave Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
8:47 pm
But according to Plato, in the Apology, Meletus charges Socrates with not believing in gods at all. Socrates doesn't actually deny the charge but in his usual...
16417 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
11:09 pm
"Men of Athens, I honor and I love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength, I shall never cease from the practice...
16418 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 4, 2007
11:50 pm
You make a number of interesting points, Peter, and I think in your zeal for discovering dualism in many guises, you are onto something, namely, that almost...
16419 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
12:00 am
Two quick points, Amos. The ancient Greek phrase "ho theos," literally translated as "the god," can be singular or general. Ho theos can mean the gods in...
16420 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
1:48 am
I omitted a small but important word, here added.--JG You make a number of interesting points, Peter, and I think in your zeal for discovering dualism in many...
16421 peter
phrygianslave Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
11:06 am
"To Aeschylus, more than to any other, is due the conception of the supreme God, the "ruler of rulers," the " most blessed of the blessed," as a requiting, a...
16422 Steve
marquis95960 Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
5:43 pm
Jan, when you or one of our other scholars post a general synopsis of part of classical Stoicism like this I check my own thinking to see if there are any...
16423 Steve
marquis95960 Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
5:55 pm
Jan comments: You make a number of interesting points, Peter, and I think in your zeal for discovering dualism in many guises, you are onto something, namely,...
16424 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
9:03 pm
This is essentially the prevailing Homeric conception of Zeus. There seems to be no real need, btw, for Gomperz' translator to capitalize "god." In German, the...
16425 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
9:04 pm
Thank you for your feedback, Steve. Of course, if I slip up, you should let me know. ... From: Steve To: stoics@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007...
16426 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 5, 2007
10:03 pm
Anyone who wants to understand the process by which the Greek thinkers came to critique popular conceptions of the gods and produced a refined polytheism must...
16427 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Aug 6, 2007
12:00 am
Jan: Very interesting. I skimmed through the Stanford Encyclopedia article on Xenophanes. I see in my translation of Aristotle's Ethics, that of...
16428 jan.garrett
chrys1943 Send Email
Aug 6, 2007
1:13 am
Amos, It's useful to distinguish between the idea of a single ultimate cause (which is relevant to physical explanation) and the idea of a supreme god. The...
16430 Grant Sterling
fccmoose Send Email
Aug 6, 2007
9:12 pm
... I would say that there's another level to this question. Zeus is the most powerful of the gods in the Iliad, true, but as you say he's considered to be of...
16431 Amos
vivepablo Send Email
Aug 6, 2007
10:16 pm
Jan: I looked up Karen Armstrong in internet and found some material, but interviewers, for obvious reasons, are much more interested in what she has to...
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