Guillaume wrote: I don't exactly see what argument you are bringing here regarding our issue. Do you mean that you refuse the discussion because I don't seem...
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TheophileEscargot
snailman100
Nov 2, 2010 10:04 am
Update! All three essays are up now: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/27/twenty-first-century-2.html ...
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Mark
psbagumba
Nov 6, 2010 4:55 am
Howdy folks - I had no idea that there was a Stoic community until Wm. Irvine's articles were posted. The philosophy intrigues me and, like many have said, I...
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JIM GODDARD
jim660331
Nov 6, 2010 11:45 am
Hello Mark, Welcome. I don't have particular opinions about the two issues you raise, though I don't doubt that others on here will be able give you some...
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julia_stahl_hernandez
julia_stahl_...
Nov 6, 2010 12:56 pm
Mark, I echo Jim. There are many useful links and articles, and I've been spending much more time accessing those, and studying, than participating in...
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David Seita Duarte
zelareka
Nov 6, 2010 1:06 pm
My opinion is that even if the world is deterministic (and I believe so) we cannot see the future so it makes no difference from an existential perspective....
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julia_stahl_hernandez
julia_stahl_...
Nov 6, 2010 1:08 pm
Hello, I recently resumed a daily morning "devotional" time, a practice I had when I was in high school and shortly after, but I abandoned when my then...
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Donald Robertson
donjohnr
Nov 8, 2010 1:09 am
Howdy Mark! I don't think these are genuine conflicts, which is probably good news for you! 1. Determinism. You seem to have got the idea that Stoicism is...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Nov 8, 2010 3:05 pm
... *** This has already been answered--the classical Stoics were either all or almost all determinists, so there's more of a question as to whether...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Nov 8, 2010 10:10 pm
I think your entire position is based on a contemporary paradigm that is totally in conflict with the very heart of Stoic thought. You take your position to be...
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Malcolm
malcolmschosha
Nov 8, 2010 11:16 pm
Grant wrote: "The Stoics, both the ancient Stoics and anyone today who deserves the name "Stoic", were Socratic in the sense that they believed that there were...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Nov 9, 2010 4:12 am
Hello, my evidence for you consideration is this:  '...For that reason too the law of god is most excellent and just, that the better should always prove...
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Jiohdi
thedreamerdr...
Nov 9, 2010 2:18 pm
religion consists of living by revealed information which no one can check by any rational means... a modern stoic should learn from his ancient brethren but...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Nov 9, 2010 2:54 pm
... *** I do not agree with you on your definition of religion, nor would someone like, say, St. Thomas Aquinas (who is certainly considered a religious...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Nov 9, 2010 3:43 pm
... I completely disagree with your claim that Stoic Virtue is _only_ equanimity and not morality. 1) The Stoics have a list of the cardinal virtues--that list...
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Malcolm
malcolmschosha
Nov 9, 2010 4:50 pm
... ...................... Salve Grant, Stoic virtue (equanimity) supports moral action, but it it is not moral action. In my view morality separate from...
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Jiohdi
thedreamerdr...
Nov 10, 2010 5:07 pm
Stoics appear to believe in determinism, presumably based on the true, uncreated nature of reality... which would seem to lead to the rational conclusion that...
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Malcolm
malcolmschosha
Nov 10, 2010 8:28 pm
Regarding a Stoic approach to morality, has anyone notice a Stoic concept that parallels that of Tikkun Olam? There is a Wikipedia article that suggests there...
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TheophileEscargot
snailman100
Nov 10, 2010 9:08 pm
Thanks for this response. First, what we have here is a kind of dialogue, where Epictetus responds to a real or imagined opponent. It's this opponent who says...
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TheophileEscargot
snailman100
Nov 10, 2010 9:49 pm
Well, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned the relationship of modern science to stoicism several times before. In general, I think it bears out the applicability of...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Nov 10, 2010 10:04 pm
The way I read it E did say "You will never prove it, nor anything like it; for the law of nature and god is this; Let the better always be superior to the ...
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Matt D
locumranch
Nov 11, 2010 3:17 pm
So many assumptions, so little time. In a previous post I stated that "Thou shall not kill" is an assumption; Grant disagreed. With deference to Grant, "Thou...
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Malcolm
malcolmschosha
Nov 11, 2010 3:36 pm
... ..................... Hi Matt, You wrote: "I owe Peter for his erudite and invaluable assistance" Its pathetic that you consider his nonsense "erudite and...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Nov 11, 2010 7:28 pm
Malcolm wrote: ________________________________ You wrote: "The Stoics believe that some indifferents are to be preferred and some are dispreferred. This is a...
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Malcolm
malcolmschosha
Nov 11, 2010 11:15 pm
... preferred and ... claim." ... either ... over ... other hand, ... choice of ... good and bad, ... using this ... actions and how ... categories. ... that,"...
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Matthew Copple
penguinista_kc
Nov 13, 2010 9:07 pm
... St. Thomas Aquinas, and modern Catholic theology as a whole, rests on the idea that one can come to God by reason as well as experience. However, all the...
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Malcolm
malcolmschosha
Nov 13, 2010 9:27 pm
WARNING: learning Stoicism, or anything that is difficult to grasp, may prove incompatible with self-satisfaction. (The difficulties, and sense of...
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Matthew Copple
penguinista_kc
Nov 13, 2010 9:43 pm
I think what we know of the history of Stoicism (and Roman philosophy in particular) strongly supports Guillaume. Epictetus taught in Nicopolis because he, and...
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Mark
psbagumba
Nov 13, 2010 10:05 pm
But there is a built-in remedy -- living in the present moment and chalking up the mistakes of the past as part of Nature....
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Matt D
locumranch
Nov 13, 2010 10:29 pm
In the thread "moral tautology", I assert that the Judeo-Christian individual "equivocates Killing as 'not Good', 'evil' or' ungodly'"; Grant disagrees. He...
