... Hello Richard. Thanks for your comments. If competition provides an enviroment that will incline individuals to perform at there best without an...
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Pmbaysd@xxx.xxx
Feb 4, 1999 6:14 am
Peace Seventeen years in the military has led me to observe that one receives the behavior that one rewards. Competition, while not bad in itself, rewards...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Feb 4, 1999 12:42 pm
I have been incommunicado for a day or so because I had to change my e-mail address. So I have been unable to send or receive from the stoics list. If this...
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MurrellB@xxx.xxx
Feb 4, 1999 3:18 pm
"Competition" is an interesting subject. All through my years I heard one had to compete or otherwise lurk down in the bottom of the bottle. Cream could only...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Feb 5, 1999 3:35 am
I'm with Beatrix on this one. Competition is a much overrated phenomenon of our era, part of the market ideology and extreme individualism that arose in the...
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F.S.TRENCHARD
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Feb 5, 1999 11:27 am
Greetings Stoics In a little known work entitled SEPTEM SERMONES AD MORTUOS Jung, writing in the person of Basilides, the Alexandrian Gnostic, introduces the...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Feb 6, 1999 8:17 pm
I have been reading essays in a little volume published by Skinner House Press, at the Unitarian Universalist Association. The book is entitled Redeeming Time,...
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Steve Marquis
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Feb 6, 1999 10:23 pm
Frederick, in his last post, introduced the interesting concept of Effectiveness in connection with competition and the more general paradox that seems to...
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Cyberstoic@xxx.xxx
Feb 6, 1999 11:00 pm
In defense of the Stoic's cosmologist and mystic, Heraclitus, his statement, "War is both father and king of all...," should only be used very carefully in ...
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Steve Marquis
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Feb 6, 1999 11:23 pm
... A lot of issues seem to be laid out this way by describing the two extremes. This is a good place to start to bound the issue, but we tend to forget this...
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MurrellB@xxx.xxx
Feb 7, 1999 1:05 am
Aha! I'm somewhat on the same wavelength as Jan on this one! But I do want to underscore "somewhat." :-) As Jan put it: <<Loomer defines "the Web of Life" as...
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Steve Marquis
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Feb 7, 1999 2:21 am
Greetings Fellow Stoics, Erik in early January asked us our opinion about incorporting mysticism into the Stoic tradition. My intial feeling was all for it...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Feb 7, 1999 5:34 am
Beatrix's comments on my post on Web Theology were thoughtful, but one of her interpretations is somewhat misleading. ... It's true that I helped write (and...
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MurrellB@...
Feb 7, 1999 3:22 pm
My apologies, Jan! As you say: <<as a good UU, my religious quest is ongoing...>> If I may ask you--as a professional philosopher--could you perhaps discuss...
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aurelius@...
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Feb 8, 1999 12:57 am
Dear Fellow Stoics, After some recent postings on competition, Heraclitus, and effectiveness, it seems worth noting the distinction made by the Greek poet...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Feb 8, 1999 2:54 am
... could you perhaps ... There is a lot of information on this contained in Richard Bodeus' book which I am translating for State Univ. of New York Press, to...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Feb 8, 1999 3:08 am
... Whatever the value of the not so bad Eris for those who are far from virtue, the sage, as described by the Old Stoa anyway, will not be motivated by envy ...
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Cyberstoic@xxx.xxx
Feb 8, 1999 4:29 pm
I would like to address a problem that is as ancient as it is contemporary. Steve, I love you brother, but you've got to start using your Spell Checker. Oops!...
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Chuck James
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Feb 8, 1999 6:13 pm
Does anyon know the correct pronunciation for Epictetus? Obviously I am an novice here and any help would be much appreciated. Also, have any of our learned...
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MurrellB@xxx.xxx
Feb 8, 1999 8:21 pm
Erik wrote: "Issue: What is Stoic theology?" I would agree with Jan--in his excellent account of the changing terminology of "theologia" during the Classical...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Feb 9, 1999 12:46 am
"Epictetus" is pronounced, in English, eh pick TEE tus; in Greek, Epiktetos, pronounced roughly eh pick tay tos, the middle two syllables are long, though only...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Feb 9, 1999 1:52 am
... I think we need to be clear that the equation of theology with metaphysics is not a view of the old Stoa. It is a characteristic of medieval, and ...
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Cyberstoic@xxx.xxx
Feb 9, 1999 2:05 am
As I was saying . . . . Stoic metaphysics is weak, leaving us with a two dimensional philosophy. I'm reminded of a 3 legged stool: The Stoa had 2 legs and the...
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Cyberstoic@xxx.xxx
Feb 9, 1999 1:59 am
As I was saying . . . . Stoic metaphysics is weak, leaving us with a two dimensional philosophy. I'm reminded of a 3 legged stool: The Stoa had 2 legs and the...
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Cyberstoic@xxx.xxx
Feb 9, 1999 6:07 am
I Repeat: The metaphysics of Stoic philosophy is a shambles...Steve has raised a great issue, and it is one I know from having spoken privately to many Stoics...
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MurrellB@...
Feb 9, 1999 4:57 pm
Erik wrote: <<Did you know that the Didgeridoo is called a "Yadaki" by the Aborigines?>> Just to lighten-up the conversation for awhile, I'll mention...
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MurrellB@xxx.xxx
Feb 9, 1999 4:57 pm
Erik said: <<The Stoa had 2 legs and the Christians came along with the 3rd leg. The Stoics said, "Hey, we have twice as many legs as you have. And the...
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MurrellB@xxx.xxx
Feb 9, 1999 7:36 pm
Hello Fellow Stoics, We could go on and on about the nitty-gritty of terms, about preciseness, etc. Indeed, we could end-up boring ourselves silly. That...
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Paul Trejo
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Feb 9, 1999 7:56 pm
Dear Stoic List, The writings of Seneca, the great Stoic, banker and Imperial advisor of the first century, provide a fairly complete portrait of a theology ...
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Richard Dodson
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Feb 9, 1999 10:49 pm
... Are you being so rash as to suggest that we live according to Reason? What then is the nature of Reason? Is Reason always...
