Dear all, I have just finished to read the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler 's _The art of Hapiness_. I found in this book many sensible arguments in favour of the...
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periklessolon@...
Apr 2, 2001 5:55 am
Elen raises one of the central issues in stoicism: whether and on what terms, the sapiens can engage the distress, misfortune and powerlessness of another. On...
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ELEN BUZARE
elen_buzare@...
Apr 2, 2001 12:27 pm
Hello Perikles (?), Here is a response to your question (I prefered to post it on the forum so that anyone can profit of it). We do distinguish pity from...
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ELEN BUZARE
elen_buzare@...
Apr 2, 2001 12:43 pm
Perikles, I wish to precise one thing. I do believe, as you do, that the Stoic should be able of compassion and pity in its first meaning. However I tend to...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Apr 2, 2001 3:28 pm
Those interested in this discussion might find interesting how compassion (in the sense rendered by the Latin "misericordia") is treated in Cicero's Tusculan...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Apr 2, 2001 3:34 pm
I take it that this poem is a protest against the cosmologies constructed on modern physics, which tests theories based on measurements made by highly complex...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@...
Apr 5, 2001 6:44 am
March 31, 2001 I'm sorry I can think of no better heading. I'm not sure why I write in except that somehow . . . this feels good . . . and therapeutic. And ...
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ELEN BUZARE
elen_buzare@...
Apr 5, 2001 8:57 am
"Where is the hardship, then, if it is no tyrant or unjust judge who sends you out of the city, but nature who brought you in? It is just as if the director of...
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ponyboy1955@...
Apr 5, 2001 3:24 pm
Geoffry, "Remember that thou art an actor in a play of such a kind as the teacher may choose; if short, of a short one; if long, of a long one....see that you...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Apr 5, 2001 8:48 pm
There is also Seneca' voice: "It is with life as it is with a play, - it matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is." Letter 77 ...
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Lynn Dewees
lynndewees@...
Apr 5, 2001 10:16 pm
... From: "Geoffrey Howard" <sojourner@...> ... This quote is from Montaigne's essay, THAT TO STUDY PHILOSOPHY IS TO LEARN TO DIE. I believe he...
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Mike Campbell
mikpame@...
Apr 6, 2001 2:05 am
A life may never end as long as it is remembered and honored. Let your grief be a positive action to try and prevent this accident from happening again and to...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Apr 8, 2001 8:18 pm
There is a beautiful text by Seneca from De Clementia on how the sage can be good, in fact more efficiently good, without pity/compassion/misericordia: ...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Apr 8, 2001 8:47 pm
I found some more philosophical references with gladiators, by Seneca: "A gladiator counts it a disgrace to be matched with an inferior, and knows that to win...
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ELEN BUZARE
elen_buzare@...
Apr 10, 2001 6:28 pm
Hello, Is anyone on this forum able to explain what do mean the three symbols inside the Stoic Registry logo? Regards, Elen ...
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Brendan O'Keeffe
bluebottle63@...
Apr 13, 2001 10:53 am
In reference to this topic of discussion. Really, there is no real way in which it can be found which philosophy influenced whom. I would imagine there was a...
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Brendan O'Keeffe
bluebottle63@...
Apr 13, 2001 10:59 am
Dear Group Reading 18th c history it could be said that stoicism had a resurgence during this period. During the French Revolution some cathedrals (such as ...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Apr 13, 2001 3:22 pm
The earliest post-medieval revival of Stoicism appears to have occurred during the Renaissance. A prime example is Jost Lips, aka Justus Lipsius, a Flemish...
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Edward Moore
proteus28@...
Apr 13, 2001 4:38 pm
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 20:53:33 +1000 "Brendan O'Keeffe" ... Could you elaborate, please? It is my view (as I have stated numerous times) that Christianity...
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Brendan O'Keeffe
bluebottle63@...
Apr 15, 2001 11:17 am
Thanks for that Jan So it can be said that the revolutionary cults really had no direct basis in stoicsm and were as a substitute for existing religions (note...
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Brendan O'Keeffe
bluebottle63@...
Apr 16, 2001 6:08 am
Dear Group Reading 18th c history it could be said that stoicism had a resurgence during this period. During the French Revolution some cathedrals (such as ...
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Brendan O'Keeffe
bluebottle63@...
Apr 16, 2001 9:54 pm
Edward Having only been in this group a short time I may have missed some of your previous commentary. What I am particularly alluding to is whether the...
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dchave@...
Apr 17, 2001 1:19 am
Brendan The holy spirit in the ancient Hebrew tradition is called 'Shekinah', it is concieved as a feminine force and was regarded as bride of the father. The...
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Edward Moore
proteus28@...
Apr 17, 2001 4:04 am
Greetings Brendan, ... Oh, well welcome aboard then! I tend to be sporadic with my commentary. Really, I am more of a Platonist than a Stoic -- I am also a...
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Brendan O'Keeffe
bluebottle63@...
Apr 20, 2001 11:23 am
Thanks for that Edward Some thoughts/responses on your commentary I did not know that the Stoics thought of the logos-pneuma as a being within time, but...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Apr 26, 2001 3:07 pm
My friend Franz has posed the following question, and I wonder whether members of the Forum might like to respond: I have an undocumented quote I would like to...
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Jan Garrett
jan.garrett@...
Apr 26, 2001 3:56 pm
The supreme God of the Stoics, aka Zeus, being wise, would not be subject to the "passions," aka violent movements of the soul. It would not follow that this...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Apr 26, 2001 10:39 pm
... The quote is from "New Testament Words" by William Barclay (Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1974), pp. 278-81. The main part states: "According to the...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Apr 26, 2001 10:50 pm
... According to the Stoics...the supreme and essential characteristic of God is apatheia....They meant incapability of feeling....If God could feel sorrow or...
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Giulia.Harding@...
Apr 26, 2001 10:51 pm
Introducing myself, Giulia Harding, radio journalist working for BBC in UK. I am currently working on a new biography of John Florio, and have recently begun...
