George asked "what am I missing?" In my opinion, people who live more stoically than others do not cease to undertake activities essential for personal growth...
am i correct in thinking that epictetus wants us to avoid discomfort and
pain by not desiring things outside our control?
for instance.... if i want to...
just a few thoughts on geoffrey's comments... ... i think you are right. a stoic might say that the only only only thing in your control is your mind. stoics ...
Salutations: I am in agreement that is only assent (which is what I often refer to in the venacular as action and opinion). Currently this assent seems to...
Stoici amici, As my web-site is growing (http://www.geocities.com/elen_buzare/nouveaustoicisme.htm), I am considering to create a French language based Stoic...
NB: to go to my web-site, please take off the final brackett(that should never have been taken into account) or go to Jan Garrett's Stoic Place where you will...
Dear All More naive stuff - if this is not the correct forum for my current questions, please let me know. Are the following ideas along the right lines? ...
My university is restructuring the file layout on its web server (if that is the proper expression). In any case, the Stoic Place website, until now at ...
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Caleb Williamson
caleb@...
Jan 7, 2002 2:17 am
I am only an undergrad, so don't expect any immortal wisdom from me here, especially with severasl classical scholars on the list.Still, I'd thought I'd try to...
Elene, je serais ravi de pouvoir participer à une telle initiative dans ma langue natale... Denis ... Téléchargez MSN Explorer gratuitement à l'adresse...
... COMMENT: If you mean physical pain you will feel it. Stoicism only has the ability to give us the choose to acknowlege our bodies as not of our own will....
Dear Friends, Last week in The Sunday Times (6 Jan 02), in his review of Andre Comte-Sponville's A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy...
In my understanding, justice is giving each man or woman his or her due. As a Stoic, fate owes me nothing; therefore, I suffer no injustice. This brings me...
A few quick comments: Comte-Sponville seems to think that we would have no right to judge what another deserves unless we had divine omniscience. He seems to...
I have put together a new group to discuss the practice of Stoicism as opposed to the theory of Stoicism. It is merely a complementary project to the ones...
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dchave@...
Jan 13, 2002 5:42 am
Rousseau seemed to favor democratic organizations where fewer numbers of people were engaged and less democratic the larger the number. Questions as to the...
Bonjour, J'ai finalement créé un forum de discussion sur le stoïcisme en français. Pour s'inscrire, aller sur: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stoiciamici ...
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bertr@...
Jan 13, 2002 5:53 pm
... From: charlesbricebroadway To: stoics@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 8:12 PM Subject: [stoics] stoic practice I have put together a new...
The following is from a note sent automatically, I think, to people who subscribe to the "stoics" community at yahoo groups. As you can see from the list...
i've enjoyed discussion of stoic principles in practice in this forum
for some time.
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Geoffrey Howard
MFA Directing/Acting
***Note new email address***...
From: <dchave@...> ... courtrooms and such.<<< I have always assumed (naively?) that we are also talking of plain fair dealing as individuals in daily...
... At the very least we owe them virtuous behaviour: patience, courtesy, honesty, and so on. As Stoics aiming to 'make progress' towards being better examples...
... Hmm. This reminds me a bit of the Confucian notion of the "rectification of names." How does one get to the way a brother *should* treat siblings without...
Defining justice as giving people what they are owed is initially attractive, but ultimately won't work for the full range of problems unless we're willing to...
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bertr@...
Jan 15, 2002 6:05 pm
... From: Keith Seddon To: stoics@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 1:53 PM Subject: Re: [stoics] Digest Number 764 ... At the very least we owe...
This is really a difficult subject. I can only describe it by way of scenarios. Scenario 1 You live in a remote location. One day, a man comes to your door. He...
Charles writes " . . . a college student is to read, study, attend classes, and do the required work in order to earn credit. Now for some, this constitutes a...
In regards to social justice, it seems the aim of our current society is to ensure not only equality in opportunity but also equality in outcomes. But nature...
... I would be most interested to learn more about your group. ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in...
