... Insult is a good example. If you are insulted in a foreign language you don't speak, you don't feel insulted and you don't get angry. In fact, even if you...
... Wouldn't most of these instinctive reactions be classified in Stoicism as propatheia? In such cases, there is no need to eliminate the feeling, just as...
Grant: I don't mean to quibble, because I basically agree with you, but when you say that you've never experienced an emotional response to an event...
I could be wrong --- but I think that the chronological order of reaction to an experience is as follows: 1> Perception 2> Emotion 3> Reason If Stoicism is...
And then again, your animal instinct can get you in trouble. If you are driving down a snowy highway and the road turns and your car does not, animal instinct...
Sophia writes: __________________ I think that the chronological order of reaction to an experience is as follows: 1> Perception 2> Emotion 3> Reason If...
Grant. I'm very short of time at present so can't give this question the attention it deserves. But as a first attempt, I would describe someone as a Stoic if...
... No it isn't! The purpose of publishing Trapp's views was _not_ to aim criticism at Keith that he might feel the need to defend. Trapp raised a large number...
... I'm not sure about 'all situations where one has experienced the situation before'; it would depend on how _challenging_ the situation was. With regard to...
No, no, Vicki! It's only the _female_ 'animal instinct' that will tell you to turn the wheel in the direction you wish to go. The _male_ 'animal instinct'...
To say that something "might be the subject of scholarly debate" might mean that the writer is trying to encourage scholarly debate about them, not that there...
Does this response reflect an ambiguity in the term "belief"? In the liberal religious circles I sometimes frequent one often hears it said that religion is...
The Fox, The Grapes, and the Stoa: On Stoicism, Human Dignity, and Adaptive Preferences "Adaptive preferences" is a topic that comes up in discussions of...
Grant, we may be much closer together than we realise. :) ... I quite agree; I was most definitely 'reasoning'; but also, I was experiencing significant...
This jokey start could, interestingly, be leading in to a useful discussion. :) If I were ever lost, after dark, I would never, ever, approach a child, or...
Interesting, Jan. Trapp is the 'Professor of Greek Literature and Thought' at Kings College - University of London; where he's the Head of Department. ...
... I believe this flies in the face of Stoic thought. While the above is a good summary of what most people think, the realization of Stoicism is that this is...
I can understand your reluctance, you never know who you are dealing with. I do think that caution can go a bit too far however. (Maybe go to a gas station to...
Amos asks Grant: __________________ . . . when you say that you've never experienced an emotional response to an event which you did not consider good or bad,...
Jan writes: __________________ However we might define the eupatheia, say, of joy, it could not be oriented toward an object (if it is oriented toward an...
I wonder about the pertinence of Dr. Trapp's comments about Paganism in his review of Keith's book. I feel a bit ill at ease commenting as I have not gotten to...
Here's the link: http://osdir.com/ml/education.publications.bryn-mawr-classical-review/2006-11/msg00011.html Vicki Russell <vrussell001@...> wrote: I...
I think this is too simplistic. All the recent discussion on (controlled) emotion, and its role when dealing with challenging situations, convinces me that you...
I have occasionally thought of them in that way myself, Steve. Short of a more thorough study of the evidence than I have time to conduct, I don't know how to...
The post on the Fox, the Grapes, etc. didn't have anything to do with Dr. Trapp's review of Keith's book. It was an attempt to introduce a fresh topic. ... ...
Jan writes: __________________ But ancient Stoicism seems to speak otherwise. It seems to say that if you are a slave, be the best slave you can be, which of...
Gich writes: __________________ I think this is too simplistic. All the recent discussion on (controlled) emotion, and its role when dealing with challenging...
Perhaps I can combine my comments on three or four different posts into a single response. First, Gich: ... Stop right here--this is the key. What do you mean...
... I don't have a fraction of the background that you have on this subject, but why wouldn't eup. have as their objects _real_ goods and evils? So, for...
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