I was surprised to find out that both the Stoics and the Epicureans had following nature as goal. To Epicurus nature is on the sensation/emotion side: mainly...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Jul 5, 2001 10:22 am
Dear Friends, Just in case anyone would themselves be interested, or can pass on the request to others lists, noticeboards (real ones, maybe, with thumbtacks),...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Jul 7, 2001 8:54 am
I also found this Epicurean/Stoic comparison on Britannica (by Carlo Diano) - Britannica has great philosophical articles; by the way I saw that the Britannica...
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Sue
suzann_carroll@...
Jul 9, 2001 8:41 pm
Hello, I am a student and as part of my course, I need to do a 3000 word essay on the title "Stoicism and its influence on Christianity". I am however having...
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Geoffrey Howard
sojourner@...
Jul 9, 2001 9:25 pm
I can't offer any real help on this subject... but others in the group will surely. This has been a topic of good debate in here. I would be very interested...
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Tim Harris
tharris@...
Jul 9, 2001 11:42 pm
Hello Sue, This is a topic of much interest and debate. A few recent works survey the various scholarly contributions from the perspective of New Testament ...
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Ben R. Schneider
ben.r.schneider@...
Jul 10, 2001 3:41 pm
check stoics.om (why stoics) to find out more about co-optation of Stoicism by the early church. Ben Schneider, proprietor....
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Thomas
tc266@...
Jul 10, 2001 8:10 pm
Pierre Hadot writes in "La Citadelle Intérieure, Introduction aux Pensées de Marc Aurèle" (I translate from French): "The Greek word *arete*, that we...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Jul 10, 2001 8:39 pm
A quite interesting link: http://puffin.creighton.edu/phil/Stephens/rebirth_of_stoicism.htm...
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Sue
suzann_carroll@...
Jul 12, 2001 8:11 pm
Thank you for the various responses they were most appreciated and I foudn them very useful, when I ahve completed the project I will post it for you to read,...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Jul 16, 2001 2:37 am
... It is perhaps true that in archaic Greece "arete" did not mean a good habit or a principle that leads us to act well, but between archaic Greece (ca 500...
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Blackhame
blackhame@...
Jul 17, 2001 1:20 pm
When I read the discourses and enchiridion of Epictetus, it seems to me that implicitly (and, often enough, explicitly) throughout it is the notion of virtue...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Jul 18, 2001 3:02 am
... De : "Jan E Garrett" <jangarrett@...> ... I read in Long & Sedley's book on p. 377 (Plutarch) that Stoic virtue could be also viewed as a containing...
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Caleb Williamson
caleb@...
Jul 20, 2001 5:04 pm
I am wondering exactly what emotions a stoic sage is permitted. Could a stoic sage passionately love his wife? Feel righteous anger while fighting a just...
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Jonathan Hemlock
jghemlock@...
Jul 20, 2001 10:46 pm
Hello, What emotions are allowed for a stoic sage? I have been wondering about that myself. In my opinion it would not be natural for anyone to be completely...
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Jonathan Hemlock
jghemlock@...
Jul 20, 2001 10:46 pm
What emotions are allowed for a stoic sage? I have been wondering about that myself. In my opinion it would not be natural for anyone to be completely...
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Timothy Anstiss
Anstiss.Shl@...
Jul 22, 2001 7:20 am
I am particularly interested in this question. But perhaps it might be restated, or broken into two different questions. 1. what emotions are allowed for a...
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Blackhame
blackhame@...
Jul 22, 2001 3:40 pm
I understand, I think, thew Aristotelian position but I do not share it, for two reasons. First, we shoul dbe concrned with one's own obligations,a nd that, I...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Jul 22, 2001 8:07 pm
Before anyone decides that the Aristotelian position on the emotions is superior to the Stoic, one should read carefully Seneca's On Anger, which is one of his...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Jul 23, 2001 8:14 pm
Jonathan in his post about Apathea writes: I don't think that it is possible to supress all emotion. This may well be the case, tho whether it is or not, is...
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Timothy Anstiss
Anstiss.Shl@...
Jul 24, 2001 4:50 am
keith wrote: "stoicism does not need to change in any way to be "relevant to modern humans"" keith - good luck, friend. tim ... From: Keith Seddon...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Jul 28, 2001 8:00 am
A beautiful saying from chapter 4 of the Taoist book of Chuang-tzu (250 BCE): "Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Aug 6, 2001 5:17 pm
I just received an e-mail marked [stoics] from Sue Caroll, with the text of my last post to the group, plus the reply: take a look at the attachment. The...
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Sue
suzann_carroll@...
Aug 7, 2001 6:04 pm
Thank you for informing me about the virus. I am so sorry that I sent you an attachment which was infected, I was however unaware that it had been sent to you...
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Thomas
tc266@...
Aug 7, 2001 6:18 pm
I hope you successfully removed the virus. The Britannica CD-Rom has this article, that shows a quite profound influence. /Thomas "Stoic elements in Pauline...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Aug 9, 2001 11:15 am
Dear Friends, Just in case any of you are interested in this, my new article on Epictetus is now available at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I hope...
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Blackhame
blackhame@...
Aug 9, 2001 8:22 pm
Greetings. I have two questions. If anyone knows the answers, please write back to me if it is not too much trouble: 1) Where can one find English...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Aug 9, 2001 10:02 pm
Blackhame asks about sources for the early Stoics ... Fragments of the early Stoics (direct quotations from, paraphases from, and summaries from) are scattered...
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Keith Seddon
K.H.S@...
Aug 9, 2001 10:10 pm
It occurred to me that members of this forum might find my Stoic Bibliography of some use. Not all of this book listed here still in print, alas. Bibliography ...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Aug 10, 2001 12:24 pm
Quite a few of the original works that inform us about ancient Stoicism and were mentioned by Keith in his bibliography (I am thinking of the English part of...
