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16923 Robin Turner
selgusni Offline Send Email
Oct 1, 2007
8:43 am
... It is true that much talk of virtue and vice is "a moralising net of stuff and nonsense," but I don't think that charge applies when we use those words ...
16926 Daniel Strain
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Oct 1, 2007
1:42 pm
Thanks for this Gich. To me, the most significant aspect of what you've provided here, is that there *is* indeed a way for the stoic to praise and blame others...
16927 Daniel Strain
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Oct 1, 2007
1:48 pm
Gich, I'd be honored to engage in a detailed dialog on my position. Perhaps, instead of a lengthy list of examples on each line of my post, you could be more...
16928 Daniel Strain
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Oct 1, 2007
1:49 pm
Sorry, in the below post, "Paul" should have been "Peter". (Surely there is some pun I can use here concerning robbing Peter to pay Paul, but I've not thought...
16929 peter
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Oct 1, 2007
1:58 pm
Daniel / Paul wrote: "I very seriously doubt that Chrysippus and I would agree on everything - almost certainly not even on most things. I don't even know...
16930 peter
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Oct 1, 2007
1:58 pm
Daniel, You wrote, "This is not what the stoics speak of when they refer to a person's 'nature'. They use the word and concept in a different manner than you...
16931 peter
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Oct 1, 2007
1:59 pm
Daniel, He who moralises assumes he is somehow morally superior to others. With missionary zeal he seeks every opportunity to impose his morally superior...
16932 peter
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Oct 1, 2007
2:13 pm
Robin wrote: "As for doing things because we want to, of course this is why we do things. However, we have different, competing wants, and different levels of...
16933 zadamaka Offline Send Email Oct 1, 2007
3:14 pm
This particular Pizza must have had more than 10 toppings in that the discussion about it still rage on.... :). ... to ... your...
16934 Robin Turner
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Oct 1, 2007
3:44 pm
... But of course we should praise or blame "with reservation", since we can never truly know the opinion behind the act. Robin -- Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent...
16935 Amos
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Oct 1, 2007
4:17 pm
I see that some people, especially Daniel and Steve, are talking about the idea of objective ethics. I recall that the last time we talked about what is...
16936 Daniel Strain
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Oct 1, 2007
4:45 pm
... a variety of impelling forces... And, as Cleanthes had said, man is "free" to obey the universal law." [Hicks] ... Very good Peter. If it is not too...
16937 Daniel Strain
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Oct 1, 2007
4:54 pm
Sorry Amos - I am guilty of not always specifying my words. I can at least tell you what I mean by the word (right or wrong), and in this perhaps Steve, Grant,...
16938 jan.garrett@...
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Oct 1, 2007
5:03 pm
Kevin, you must be referring to an earlier post. I see no reference to "diatribe" here (and I went through it twice). "Diatribe" in the context of Epictetus...
16939 Steve
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Oct 1, 2007
5:47 pm
Peter writes: _______________ Steve wrote: "I just ate too much pizza. This was not a virtuous choice. It violated the virtues of moderation, courage, and...
16941 Steve
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Oct 1, 2007
7:52 pm
Gich writes: _______________ An initial difficulty [that right and wrong corresponds to virtue and vice, SM] with this definition is that all actions cannot be...
16942 Steve
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Oct 1, 2007
8:47 pm
Gich writes: _______________ I would not describe you eating too much pizza as a 'vicious choice'. In practice, I doubt whether it was a conscious 'choice' at...
16943 peter
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Oct 1, 2007
8:51 pm
Daniel wrote: "I also do not mean to suggest that they had the "intention of denying that something is in our power". Surely, many things are within our power....
16944 peter
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Oct 1, 2007
9:23 pm
Steve, We are all in the same boat. The pizza story you provided us with gave me the opportunity to argue that Stoicism tells us, i.e., Epictetean Stoicism,...
16945 Daniel Strain
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Oct 2, 2007
1:43 pm
Gich, Very well, I'll give it a shot. I hope this is helpful :) ... Every single ethical norm we have now, if it is accurate to what is objectively ethical, is...
16946 Daniel Strain
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Oct 2, 2007
1:50 pm
... definitions in post #16897 and in #16931. I am prepared to converse with you using either definition; your choice - so long as we stick with one and do not...
16947 Grant Sterling
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Oct 2, 2007
1:59 pm
... If you substituted "chose" for "wanted", I would agree with this view completely. And, indeed, that's exactly how Long translates these passages. Other...
16948 Grant Sterling
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Oct 2, 2007
2:04 pm
... For what it's worth, I am generally content with the definition of 'objective' included here. Daniel and I disagree significantly about _why_ Ethics is...
16949 Amos
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Oct 2, 2007
2:36 pm
I'm intrigued. The word or abbreviation "lol" has appeared twice lately in this forum. What does it mean? Out of date, Amos...
16950 Kevin Collins
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Oct 2, 2007
2:43 pm
Jan, I was referring to a different post. Sorry you had to spend extra time looking for the word in question. I had adopted the position that Long gave on this...
16951 Robin Turner
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Oct 2, 2007
2:54 pm
... Laughing Out Loud. A variation is ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing. Robin -- Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara, Turkey ...
16952 Robin Turner
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Oct 2, 2007
4:08 pm
... Indecision? Robin -- Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara, Turkey http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin http://solri.livejournal.com On 01/10/2007,...
16953 peter
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Oct 2, 2007
4:56 pm
Grant wrote: "If you substituted "chose" for "wanted", I would agree with this view completely. And, indeed, that's exactly how Long translates these...
16955 Steve
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Oct 2, 2007
6:46 pm
Amos writes: _______________ I see that some people, especially Daniel and Steve, are talking about the idea of objective ethics. I recall that the last time...
16956 Amos
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Oct 2, 2007
10:27 pm
Steve: You have a good memory. That's where I got confused the last time when we started to talk about whether so-called objective reality (that is,...
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