Greetings Keith! Your address to Les' take on my original concern was well expressed. I especially enjoyed your closing comments. ... Jack replies: This...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Nov 3, 2000 4:53 pm
I have changed my email address for access to the Stoics community at egroups.com. JG...
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ponyboy1955@...
Nov 4, 2000 7:57 pm
Hello all, The other night I rode my bicycle through my local Forest Preserve trail at night, without a light. I did this for two reasons: 1. I wanted to get...
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Jack Gendron
countryblues@...
Nov 6, 2000 3:05 am
Hi Aaron! RE: I practice a fair amount of discipline (physical,mental) and wanted to see if adding 'excercises of courage' would be appropriate. The...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@...
Nov 7, 2000 5:23 pm
Hello fellow stoics. I have not written to this group in some time. I just had to give a thank you for all the wonderful discussion I've enjoyed here. This ...
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countryblues@...
Nov 9, 2000 2:21 pm
Greetings all! I would like to thank all of you who have generously given me the information I requested toward assembling a Stoic cannon. What more fitting...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Nov 9, 2000 9:19 pm
We shall forebear under the departure of individual members. There will be more loquacious days. Some day, for instance, I shall have a computer operational at...
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APigeon@...
Nov 10, 2000 5:25 am
Well, intellectually I agree with most stoic assertions but with one posssible exception. Even "agnostic"; Stoics seem to have a general belief in, if not the...
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Timothy Anstiss
Anstiss.Shl@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:00 am
I agree. I believe the universe is indifferent towards me, and that whilst at present I prefer to live than die, I can see why millions of us would concur with...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Nov 10, 2000 2:12 pm
In my view the kernel of truth in the classical Stoic view that the universe/Zeus is good is a negative point: that there is no sufficient ground for...
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ponyboy1955@...
Nov 11, 2000 4:12 pm
I think that the classical view of the nature of the universe to be quite appealing and perhaps comforting. Is it not very possible that our perceptive...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Nov 11, 2000 11:45 pm
I am puzzled by a passage in the Penguin edition of the Seneca's Letters, and I wonder if anyone can help. The second paragraph of Letter 9 (page 48) begins: ...
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trs236@...
Nov 12, 2000 7:56 am
... Letters, and I wonder if anyone can help. ... school is this: our wise man feels his troubles but overcomes them, while their wise man does not even feel...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Nov 13, 2000 2:38 pm
I don't have time or the texts in front of me to do an exhaustive reply, but I suspect the issue has to do with the distinction between physical pain and other...
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clovers009@...
Nov 13, 2000 6:58 pm
Last night I saw the newly re-released version of The Exorcist which adds some 20 minutes of formerly unreleased footage, some of which provided more insight...
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APigeon@...
Nov 15, 2000 1:51 am
Jan, I know that this is primarily your site (isn't it?) but I certainly hope you don't continue to politicize your view of Stoicism. That would be very...
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Timothy Anstiss
Anstiss.Shl@...
Nov 15, 2000 5:54 am
jan, I form one am happy with you continuing to explore the relationship between stoic philosophy, modern political activity and your own musings. Stoicism is...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Nov 15, 2000 10:05 pm
I certainly don't consider the Forum to be primarily mine (I didn't found it and agreed to be moderator just to facilitate things, and the founder has since...
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Timothy Anstiss
Anstiss.Shl@...
Nov 16, 2000 5:48 am
These paragraphs also contribute to ones appreciation of why the epicurians where such fierce atomists, and held that belief in immaterial gods, spirits and...
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clovers009@...
Nov 17, 2000 8:51 pm
In a message dated 11/15/00 10:46:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, Anstiss.Shl@... writes: << It is only now that my reading has broadened that I begin...
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Mike Campbell
mikpame@...
Nov 17, 2000 11:32 pm
Your's, Mine, Ours. I'm a young stoic so forgive me if I've reached some incorrect conclusions. Stoics can have different opinions. Stoics should be typicaly...
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APigeon@...
Nov 18, 2000 6:14 am
OK, point well given and also well taken. I know being "moderator" is a heavy responsibility. You certainly have the right to express your political...
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Thomas
trs236@...
Nov 18, 2000 11:37 am
I have been wondering if Confucius' "ritual/etiquette" was not a possible equivalent of "reason" in Greek philosophy, as a guiding system of human behavior. I...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Nov 18, 2000 5:24 pm
Hello Thomas: Many thanks for your reply to my query. This is a great help. [Thomas wrote, in reply to my query about Seneca's Letter 9: "The French ...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Nov 18, 2000 5:25 pm
... I am a great fan of Plato's philosopher kings, tho for something more practical and realistic I have always favoured Marxism. The emphasis that the Stoics...
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Christine Moore
christine@...
Nov 18, 2000 7:39 pm
... From: stoics@egroups.com [mailto:stoics@egroups.com] Sent: Sunday, 19 November 2000 12:42 a.m. To: stoics@egroups.com Subject: [stoics] Digest Number 561 ...
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Timothy Anstiss
Anstiss.Shl@...
Nov 19, 2000 2:44 pm
clovers009 wrote: well, we're all green with envy, but I think you missed the point. I'm not sure I did, but I wanted to make one. tim ... From:...
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Thomas
trs236@...
Nov 19, 2000 4:22 pm
[I received a reply from Professor Hansen on the comparison of Stoic reason with Confucian ritual. He thinks its relevant. Reposted with permission. Thomas] ...
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APigeon@...
Nov 20, 2000 4:37 am
Dear Fellow Members, I would like to address a subject somewhat personal to me. I am a recovering fundamentalist, as it were, still haunted by fears of ...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Nov 20, 2000 2:21 pm
"Indifferent" is not the term classically applied to the attitude of the Stoic sage. "Indifferent" is the term applied to preferred values, rejected values, ...
