Some months ago a participant in the Forum challenged us to consider Sextus Empiricus' criticisms of Stoic Ethics in Outlines of Pyrrhonism book III chapters...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Feb 4, 2002 1:32 am
The second paragraph from Sextus O.P. book 3, chap. 22 is as follows: "Hence also they [the Stoics] assert that good has three meanings. In one of its...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Feb 5, 2002 11:46 pm
Please send a copy of your responses to this message to Mr. Barry. The email address is included below. ... proponents...
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Geoffrey Howard
ssojourner
Feb 6, 2002 5:58 am
i'm a bit unclear as to what you mean by "in the Stoic idea of
> truth lying in what we feel as opposed to what we think."
my understanding was that stoics...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Feb 8, 2002 2:21 am
Picking up from where we left Sextus in the last installment: "But the aforesaid attributes are not sufficient to indicate the concept and the real nature of...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Feb 9, 2002 1:02 am
The selections from Sextus Empiricus have prompted me to look into Pyrrhonism/Skepticism. From my feeble understanding, it seems to me that Skepticism was the ...
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R&F Bamford
scipan_rick
Feb 9, 2002 3:52 am
Good arguments, Charles. But I'm a Socrates fan, so you're preaching to the choir with me. Regarding your 'student B is more correct than student C' example,...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Feb 9, 2002 11:03 am
Hello Charles, Your efforts to develop some clarity regarding certainty and absolute certainty are to be praised. My longstanding advice to all those...
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epictde
Feb 9, 2002 1:50 pm
the stoic principles are known to us: a)follow the nature (it is the universal reason and indiv.reason which is to govern our lives not the caprice of...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Feb 10, 2002 1:57 pm
Passage from Dr. Garrett's post: Sextus completes chapter 22 thus: "Thus, then, it is plain that they have not guided us to a clear conception of the several...
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William Annis
sedhom
Feb 10, 2002 6:02 pm
... This is no mere smart-alec. Sokal is a theoretical physicist. The jibberish was actually more than just buzzwords -- he did some research to make sure he...
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Fortunatus
tlfortunatus
Feb 10, 2002 6:28 pm
... This is not what I took away from deconstructionism. It seemed to me that the deconstructionists were not saying that texts can't convey meaning, but...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Feb 10, 2002 7:25 pm
I Googled Sokal, and here is a link I found very interesting where he describes the whole affair: ...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Feb 10, 2002 7:36 pm
Another link of interest: http://www.igc.org/dissent/archive/winter97/aronosok.html ... he ... deconstruction. ... politics. ... article ... realization. ... ...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Feb 12, 2002 2:16 am
The principle "avoid pain" is more Epicurean than Stoic. Rather the Stoic strives to avoid the "pathe" (that is, the violent feelings that correspond to...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Feb 12, 2002 3:04 am
I was thinking about this topic today. Here's my pitiful attempt at an answer. I think we should spread Stoic thought and philosophy the way the Stoics and...
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R&F Bamford
scipan_rick
Feb 12, 2002 4:41 am
Education is good, and indeed very helpful in combating ignorance, so I support universal education highly, but I don't think education alone is a panacea for...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Feb 12, 2002 10:10 am
... philo-guidelines of "good conduct" to every household / parents. I would be interested in your comments ,because we -a few- know what we appreciate through...
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Jarod Dening
hydroxyltryp...
Feb 12, 2002 11:42 am
I think Maslow's hierarchy is extremely applicable to understanding religious fundamentalism. If we look at the condition of the peasantry in countries such as...
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Sean C. M. Kent
scmkent
Feb 12, 2002 3:55 pm
It would be an ironic thing indeed if we managed to educate the third world and introduce them to philosophical thought while the majority of the first world...
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Geoffrey Howard
ssojourner
Feb 12, 2002 5:44 pm
sean kent.... INCREASE YOUR FONT SIZE!!!! ha ha ha...
but seriously.... i loved what you had to say.
it just feels like stoicism and prosylityzing (don't...
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Timothy Anstiss
Anstiss.Shl@...
Feb 12, 2002 8:37 pm
I guess when you refer to "these people" you refer to non-americans, as americans are obviously in need no education about the difference between good things...
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Sean C. M. Kent
scmkent
Feb 13, 2002 4:20 pm
In all fairness this seems to clearly refer to the developing world. I see no reason to assume the UK, or most of Europe, Canada, Australia, NZ and Japan for...
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Sean C. M. Kent
scmkent
Feb 13, 2002 4:32 pm
Geoffrey, Many thanks. Your comments hit several points I missed. I especially liked the part about thought vs. belief. It even made up for the font...
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Michael Cowden
mwcowden
Feb 13, 2002 4:46 pm
Remember as Stoics we recognize we are cosmopolitans. Anything else is an assent to false impression. Never in reply to the question, to what country you...
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Sean C. M. Kent
scmkent
Feb 13, 2002 5:22 pm
Michael, I'm familiar with the passage, but certainly being cosmopolitan does not involve accepting strongly rejected indifferents as completely equal with ...
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labienus@...
tlfortunatus
Feb 13, 2002 5:32 pm
... That was how I read Mr. Broadway's message. ... Yes, it would. I suspect that Mr. Annan was also referring to no training of human rights abusers at Ft....
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William Annis
sedhom
Feb 13, 2002 5:41 pm
Please, ladies and gentlemen, I beg you, don't leave a 100 line quote attached to a statement of your own of only a few lines. This can be very hard to read,...
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Sean C. M. Kent
scmkent
Feb 13, 2002 6:39 pm
... These would be the same human rights abusers who protect us from...oh, let's say the Chinese human rights abusers and back up our "rights" with their...
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labienus@...
tlfortunatus
Feb 13, 2002 8:48 pm
... Well, yes and no. Could not the human rights abusers trained at Ft. Benning's SOA/WHISC (I am referring to such people as the leaders of the Atlcatl ...
