Thanks for your response Grant. ... _perception_ ... acquaintance_ ... ever be ... This is highly interesting to me. I had thought before you were thinking of...
There is, I think, a partial answer to your puzzle in the following considerations. 1) The Stoics (at least the early Stoics) agree with Aristotle that the...
... Let's start with a perceptual case. I have the mental experience of "seeing a chair", and I infer from this that there is a chair in the room. The chair...
... Here's my take, FWIW: Contentment and eudaimonia are not synonymous. Probably someone without contentment could not have eudaimonia (so it may be a...
Any question such as "why would it make a difference to our contentment that we make wise decisions?" calls into question the integrity of the person asking...
Jan, I associate “…actions and feeling-events,” with impulse and desires \ aversions. Did you intend this association? If so, do you think judgments and...
I haven't been following this thread, so this may be tangential, but Epictetus definitely considers we should regret non-virtuous past behaviour as the poem...
Thanks much for the responses so far everyone - I hope to see more :) I will respond to Grant and Curt first, whose answers I have difficulties with. Then I'll...
Daniel wrote: *** If the wise person does not receive distress from the things he cannot control (including past actions) that should be enough to provide ...
... I agree. ... But just as the "intellectual recognition" that something is good is either identical to a desire or necessarily produces a desire, so too the...
Grant, Yes, I see now that you have a good point when you draw the distinction between a passion based on a false judgment, and one based on a true judgment...
I don't object to your making this association, but I am more comfortable with the earlier Stoic terminology that conceives actions (=voluntary choices...
... also answer my own question. Why should someone say 2+2 is 4 instead of 5? ... a division inside of my own rationality. I think having a rational faculty...
"Ahistorical religions and cultures by definition do not have central myths about history, myths expressing what is to them the meaning of history. However...
I would say that for the general question “why someone should do the right thing if they can be content no matter what?” The answer is because it is the...
The crux of the Conundrum is the feeling of contentment. Can we feel content with ever present visciousness? If you can then it matters not to you weather...
OOPS! Sorry about the spelling errors...i have no excuse but that I've not been using my head for much but holding down my body lately. Joe ... feel ... not ...
... Certainly no ancient Stoic philosopher, or for that matter Cicero (a Platonist, not a Stoic - but an important source for Stoicism), ever said that our...
Cicero was an Academic Skeptic, of the general persuasion of Carneades, hardly a Platonist. The Skeptics led by Archelaus took over what had been Plato's...
My memory of the texts fails me at the moment. I'm not sure if I can find an example of a stoic speaking speciffically of the lack of import of our past, but I...
On Margaret Graver's website ( she is the author of the 2007 book "Stoics and Emotion') she mentions the she and A. A. Long are co- authoring a new full...
... right thing if they can be content no matter what?" The answer is because it is the right -correct and rational- thing to do. ... Yes, Grant takes this...
There was one English translation by Cora Lutz published in 1947 by the Princeton University Press. It is out-of-print and is only available through a small...
... Suppose someone performs an action at time t. They must believe that this action will be good or produce something good. (This belief may be irrational,...
Daniel wrote: Rather, I think a better approach is to recognize that *ethics is good for us*, and that ethics exist for *our* sake. Further, to understand just...
Since the quantity of the Musonius material is much smaller, it should be a considerably easier task than a retranslation of Seneca's Epistles. ... From:...
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