Steve: Well played! I would add that as one progresses through the stages, one may carry part of that stage forwrd with them. For example, the use of ritual...
And yet, if your goal is to communicate effectively (perhaps as an expression of your belief in the brotherhood of man) , you can use the reflection of an...
Gich writes: ___________________ So far as I'm aware, Epictetus does not, anywhere, discuss a 'criterion of truth'. It doesn't seem to me that Epictetus, in...
I think that the term itself was a technical term of the school. I don’t think E would have used it unless he meant to use it to convey technical stoic...
The article conflates "religion" with "supernatural thinking". It is far from clear whether or not any such thing as "supernatural thinking" actually exists....
So then you are suggesting that the meaning Chrysippus assciated with the Greek term "phantasia katalêptik" is criterion of truth, and that when E uses this...
When Epictetus writes in Discourse 3.8, "If we train ourselves in this manner, we shall make progress; for we shall never assent to anything of which there is...
... I agree with Gich that Epictetus seems not to have been particularly interested in developing a detailed epistemology. I object to the phrase 'criterion of...
Hello, ... I wouldn't have thought of this one myself, although what the criteria for a thing/pattern/etc's constituting consciousness might be is a question...
Some Stoic passages seem to have the first in mind--a phantasia katalptik is an appearance that really does arise from the object itself. --Grant ... This...
Hi, ... While I'll agree wholeheartedly with you that the question of whether the universe as a whole is a mere intellectual diversion and, as such, is beside...
Grant : I agree with Gich that Epictetus seems not to have been particularly interested in developing a detailed epistemology. Kevin: Perhaps not developing,...
While I think that the Discourses, as we have them, should be taken as a reliable guide to Epictetus' thought, we must still keep in mind that Arrian wrote...
... As far as I am aware, there is nothing in modern science, whether we take it seriously or not, that in any way impinges on any of Plato's premises. But...
... be accepted today, at least if we take modern science seriously. --Jan ... As far as I am aware, there is nothing in modern science, whether we take it...
... Please, Amos, by all means feel free to spout irrelevancies. "Modern" medicine owes a great deal to the ancients. Improvements have been made along the way...
... Let's leave your beliefs out of this. How does the section you quoted violate Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation? That the movements of stars are...
It would depend what was wrong with me. Some things traditional medicine is preferable. Medicine is not science, though it has its scientific aspects. Medicine...
... There are spiritual problems and there are different proportions of various chemicals in the brain. Which causes which is pretty much a chicken and egg...
The ancient Greeks didn't know from cholesterol - but they knew how to stay in shape. One theory of how the Athenians won the Battle of Marathon was that the...
Let's leave your beliefs out of this. --Curt ... You first. --Mark ... To a Platonist the gravitational interactions of the stars with each other is a...
Newton was not wrong at all. If you want to travel to Mars on a rocket ship, or do calculations on the orbit of the Moon around the Earth or the Earth around...
My objective was to try and “pin you down” so-to-speak. You usually seem to have a skeptical (Greek version) attitude, and you often seem to imply E had...
... The core principles of Christianity are principles about God, Jesus, etc. (I've already gone through that discussion on this List, and don't want to...
