The new issue of The Philosophers' Magazine has a cover story called 'Practical Wisdom: Philosophy for children, business, therapy and more', and includes a...
Interesting! I'll look out for the magazine. There doesn't seem to be a free online edition. If you subscribe, you can get access to an online edition. There...
THE STOIC THEORY OF OIKIOSIS: [pg. 42] ‘(ii) An argument in practical thought – builds directly on the Aristotelian model for talking about the TELOS –...
Jan, I assume you wrote this, in this way, to practice your technique. I 'll add a couple of comments which may be helpful Jan: "Not all the partisans of...
REPEAT -THE STOIC THEORY OF OIKIOSIS: [pg. 42] ‘(ii) An argument in practical thought – builds directly on the Aristotelian model for talking about the...
Hi all, I was a member here in 1998, disappeared, came back in 2000, disappeared again, and I'm now back, hopefully for good, after a ten-year hiatus. This...
Hello Paul, Welcome (back!). Overall, you'll have been on here far longer than I have. I don't contribute that often, due to lack of time, but I enjoy some of...
McLynn proceeds, ‘Ye the problems of Marcus’ “presentism” do not end here. His ideas on the present collide with other aspects of his overall doctrine,...
Thomas Aquinas made an argument for seven capital vices: vainglory, envy, anger, sloth, covetousness, gluttony, and lust. But "pride, like a universal vice, is...
McLynn goes on, ‘Another cosmological issue that exercised Marcus was whether the cosmos was to be considered a product of God’s providence or a mere...
Any rational person would prefer the idea of Providence to that of atoms. Who, having a choice, would prefer to live in a random World? Having a choice, I...
In this introduction, we see that in contrast to our stagnant universe that doesn't grow well; that in an all-good universe with lots of growth, no one is left...
Actually, it is remarkable that a male feminist has set down in writing the reasoning behind behavior that invariably leaves me confused and in general...
Dear Richard, one of the points I am trying to make clear is that philosophy strictly, in itself, has nothing to do with how to live or 'normal life' whereas...
Well said Sancho! Let us go a-tilting. "philosophy strictly, in itself, has nothing to do with how to live or 'normal life'" & "the Stoic way of life is...
For one time I will explain. Cervantes wrote Book I and faded back into total obscurity. Some other person wrote a sequel. Cervantes found a patron and wrote...
Book II is the devil. Incarnate. With horns and everything. Purile and putrid are elevations of it's content. The world only exists in Book I. Think of Book II...
Is THAT were he is! And here I thought he have been dead this last quarter century. Sneeky fellow. ... -- Cheers, Michel "If one accomplishes some good though...
I think this is the most fun I have had in a while. Take away his cane. If he bumps into stuff, he is alive. ... -- Cheers, Michel "If one accomplishes some...
He doesn't walk around much. He mostly just sits there. He doesn't use the cane. Seems to know where he is going. This I understand: without my spectacles I am...
Grant, if I recall correctly you teach medieval philosophy. How does the concept of Virtue differ for someone like Thomas Aquinas compared to the Stoics? I...
