This is a question I received today, followed by my (admitted quick) response. ... One of their main arguments was what is known as the argument from design....
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Blackhame
blackhame@...
Oct 4, 2001 1:56 pm
A related questio I have, please, which is historical rathe than philosophical is this: In later times (e.g. the Enlightenment) did any thinkers consciously ...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Oct 5, 2001 2:15 am
I am not aware of any Enlightenment Stoics who were also Deists, i.e., rigorous adherent of Stoic ethics during the Enlightenment. Now, Kant was very much...
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Edward Moore
proteus28@...
Oct 5, 2001 5:25 am
This question screams Blaise Pascal, doesn't it? A bit of Spinoza too. If we were to combine the two, I think we'd have a nice Enlightenment Stoic. E. ...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Oct 5, 2001 2:04 pm
Spinoza is very close to the Stoics, both metaphysically (even mental reality is also physical and reality as such is deterministic, not to mention...
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Edward Moore
proteus28@...
Oct 5, 2001 5:33 pm
Hi Jan, It all depends what we mean, exactly, by "transcendent." Epekeina, huspsistos ... Spinoza is very slippery in this department. As an almost...
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Blackhame
blackhame@...
Oct 7, 2001 5:43 pm
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Blackhame
blackhame@...
Oct 7, 2001 5:44 pm
Thank you. I expect we might be more likely to get a Christian panentheist, though. ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW...
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Robert Eddison
robedd@...
Oct 7, 2001 6:06 pm
Blackhame <blackhame@...> ... In the case of the English Enlightenment, I think these two views are combined (though I'm not sure about "consciously...
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roberts_erin@...
Oct 9, 2001 1:20 am
... this is a great question. i have never really taken the time to consider it for myself, but i guess this is as good a time as any! the following comments...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Oct 10, 2001 12:57 am
Forgive this long post. (I'm breaking it into two parts.) I think most of you will find this interesting and I promise not to send posts this long very often. ...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Oct 10, 2001 8:43 pm
Interviewer: What is the “right action” to take with regard to responding to terrorist attacks? Should we seek justice through military action? Through...
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Blackhame
blackhame@...
Oct 10, 2001 9:16 pm
While I have respect for Mr. Thich and for Buddhism, I must say I find the emphasis on compassion (if I understand it aright) a bit misguided. That we have ...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Oct 13, 2001 1:31 am
Here is another curious letter from the mysterious Brutus. Again I cannot vouch completely for its authenticity. On this one no date is given, so that does not...
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Dienekes Pontikos
dienekesp@...
Oct 13, 2001 4:01 am
It is my impression that pantheism usually refers to a belief that there is divinity in everything. The Stoic view was that the universe (Cosmos, Pur, Logos,...
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Jan E Garrett
jangarrett@...
Oct 13, 2001 10:18 am
Hello Dienekes, The view that there is divinity in everything is compatible with the view that divinity extends beyond the material universe, and that God...
Dear Friends, Only four days to go! Just to quickly remind everyone that I am holding a Stoic Workshop in Watford, England, on this coming Saturday (20th...
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Timothy Anstiss
Anstiss.Shl@...
Oct 17, 2001 5:40 am
I am not sure I can make it, but I very much want to attend a future one (if you're doing them) It looks like a great way of spreading the stoic memeplex. good...
A Theory of Emotions and Values for Our Troubled Times by Dr. Jan Garrett Introduction Considerable experience as a teacher of ethics and an observer of human ...
The Emotions How one relates to the qualified goods or evils ("advantageous" or "disadvantageous") is inseparable from how she relates to the "passions" ...
Objections and Responses OBJECTION 1. You say that life and health are "of little account" and suggest that we should think that way in order to eliminate the...
Dear Friends, I'm afraid I cannot remember what occasioned my writing these notes. I think someone remarked that Epictetus was a bit hard on Epicurus,...
I won't claim that this is directly deduced from Stoic premises, but there might be a few embedded therein. If the Old Stoics were with us today, I think they...
It seems ot me the whole modern emphasis on "freedom" or "rights" is happily alien to classical (including Stoics) thought. As one opposed tothe ideology of ...
The question has come up whether one can make sense out of human rights from a Stoic perspective. In recent weeks I have been revisiting the just war theory,...
My objection to the ideology of human rights is actually not based upon the notion that there is no objective morality but ratherthat these are properly seen...
The classical Stoics had a notion of duties, or appropriate actions, as the term kathekonta is sometimes translated. These duties were obligations that the...
It seems to me that the notion of human rights has not, in fact, proven to be an effective padagogy in virtue, whatever its theoretical possibilities (and I a...
I believe you are correct about orthodox Judaism. They hold the view that free people do not require rights (as rights are necessary only for subjugated...
I suspect you are confusing rights with what are technically called non-interference or negative rights (rights not to be killed or assualted, rights not to be...
