Lets say a evil/mean person starts beating you up or its beating up your girlfriend/son/friend/innocent for the only reasong of inflicting pain and damage. ...
Grant writes: _________________ Â I quite accept that the word "moral" is often treated as a subset of right actions--especially when applied to sexual...
Nyk writes: ______________ Â I think the word "virtue" has become overloaded with connotations that can easily trip-up a person. Often it is helpful to use...
... Yes, there was something of an historical struggle with regard to the classification of aretê. From Socrates the argument that all the cardinal virtues...
I guess there is no proof of a god besides its creation, but who created god? If universe dont needs life why it generated it? When did time start? What was...
This will be my only contribution to this thread, unless there are obvious Stoic connections in some other reply that I wish to discuss. All of the issues ...
Deism holds that God is wholly transcendent: God exists, but does not intervene in the world beyond what was necessary to create it.[26] In this view, God is...
Can some one give more insight about equanimity in stoicism and about being content with what ever happen to us. The Arrow — Buddhist attitudes to pleasure...
... As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so". This was a paraphrase of Boetius who wrote in Song IV of...
Hello Alexander, The best insight that you can get on the subject of equanimity can be gained from actually practicing it. I recommend taking a look at Elen...
For the past 3 months ive been friend of this 2 guys wich where my partners in school.And now we share same classes and where the only guys wich i hang out...
There are some of Seneca's letters about friendship at:http://www.molloy.edu/sophia/seneca/friendship.htm <http://www.molloy.edu/sophia/seneca/friendship.htm> ...
Well, The first piece of advice I think you need is that you should, if possible, talk to someone closer to the situation who can help you, like a parent,...
Good advice in seeing them as barking dogs. About making new friends, will kinda take time, as the others see me as a part of the trio. So there will be a...
Thanks for your answer. Talking with them is a no no becouse they are extremly irrational and will take that oportunity for more attacks. Ill talk/work with...
Also im seeing this very not favorable social ambient to be a good place to practice stoic advices. Im watching the situation as a experiment and training for...
London Underground stations have whiteboards for messages. When there are no delays or disruptions, sometimes staff put up "Thoughts for the Day" instead. ...
The general Stoic advice is as follows: 1. Do you consider them true friends? If so, their opinion matters, and you should analyze what they are saying to see...
Great answer!! =). Ive used this with all insults of today and i in some way i felt invincible. After University i really didnt gave much atention to it and...
Dear Stoics, To Zeno, the universe is God, a devine reasoning entity, where all parts belong to the whole. It is a Pantheistic system, we are all stems from...
I love your answer. Ive been from catholicism becouse of culture and family to agnostic to atheist to pantheist. Good thing that when i became a pantheist i...
Nyk writes The only problem is that the Stoics did not claim everything is a body, if that is your basis for FC in stoic physics. They claimed that only bodies...
Douglas, the link for Chrysippus'Â "square of oppositions" isn't working for me; could you resend? Thanks in advance Kevin ________________________________ ...
I have a question for the group; should pleasure be classified as "preffered indifferent?" My own thought is no, but I'd like to read the opinions of others. ...
Nyk, Here is the corrected link and also the embedded image. I'll explain some of this in a following post. To understand Chrysippus, one must understand his 5...
Kevin, here is my brief explanation of the Chrysippus Square of Oppositions and introduction to my version of Semiotics Generic Structure: The Semiotic Square...
Ancient writers influenced by Stoicism, such as Cicero, sometimes write about pleasure with a certain degree of hostility. Of course, it is an official Stoic...
