Jan regarding blind-spot 2. What evidence is there to support this view? Kevin...
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Michel Daw
michelgdaw
Jan 3, 2012 5:18 am
For those of you who are following along with The Word of The Ancient Wise daily Stoic readings, we have started on a new set of texts, which include a lot...
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TheophileEscargot
snailman100
Jan 5, 2012 8:21 pm
http://www.aristotelophile.com/Books/Articles/Arius%20Didymus%20Epitome.\ pdf <http://www.aristotelophile.com/Books/Articles/Arius%20Didymus%20Epitome\ .pdf> ...
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TheophileEscargot
snailman100
Jan 5, 2012 9:36 pm
Sorry, I made a mistake, please ignore! This is the "Epitome of Peripatetic Ethics", not Stoic. ... ...
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Jan Garrett
chrys1943
Jan 7, 2012 9:01 pm
The Epitome of Stoic Ethics and the Epitome of Aristotelian Ethics, both by Arius Didymus, have been bequeathed to posterity by the same compiler, Iohannes...
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Michael van der Galien
mpfvandergalien
Jan 7, 2012 9:13 pm
Hi, where can I find this online? ... -- Michael van der Galien Editor De Dagelijkse Standaard Editor-in-Chief Right Across The Atlantic Izmir, Turkey Web1:...
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jan.garrett@...
chrys1943
Jan 7, 2012 9:31 pm
Kevin, I've been away from my computer for several days, so I missed your question. For what aspect of my discussion of blind-spot 2 do you wish (more)...
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jan.garrett@...
chrys1943
Jan 7, 2012 9:43 pm
Correction to one sentence in my reply to Kevin: Riane Eisler's main contribution is her fascinating book Sacred Pleasure, though she does **NOT** stress the...
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Jan Garrett
chrys1943
Jan 7, 2012 11:10 pm
Serendipitously, this petition showed up in my email inbox today. Just look at the facts reported in this preamble to a petition and ignore, if you want, the...
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Jan Garrett
chrys1943
Jan 7, 2012 11:42 pm
Anticipating an obvious objection . . . Somebody will surely object that the woman in question herself avoided genital sexuality of the usual sort. That would...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Jan 8, 2012 2:27 am
Imagine that you are a father of two young children one boy and one girl in the year 1900, and you somehow have the beliefs you now have, regarding sexual...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Jan 8, 2012 3:24 am
Jan ,my question centers on this effect you propose... "we are well on our way to creating an uncurious population." It isn't clear to me how shame of...
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TheophileEscargot
snailman100
Jan 8, 2012 7:06 am
I saw this review of a new biography of Wilhelm Reich recently, quite interesting. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article850819.ece ...
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Jan Garrett
chrys1943
Jan 8, 2012 10:00 pm
As far as I know, the Epitome of Stoic Ethics is not available on line. A translation of the Greek original is available in book form in a publication edited...
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jan.garrett@...
chrys1943
Jan 8, 2012 10:47 pm
Reich struggled with this issue all his life. Some of his most advanced thinking is contained in the book Children of the Future: On the Prevention of Sexual...
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jan.garrett@...
chrys1943
Jan 8, 2012 11:18 pm
I have read 2000 pages by Reich as well as a careful but generally sympathetic biography by a former co-worker of Reich (Myron Sharaf, Fury on Earth) and I...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Jan 9, 2012 6:15 am
The word "armored" seems to me to mean the same as habituated. If this is fair assessment then I understand the point to be that if one is habituated to...
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Alexander Alvarenga
moltronstoic
Jan 9, 2012 6:36 pm
What you guys about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTazBdKuIg4 What would be the stoic view on this?...
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Alexander Alvarenga
moltronstoic
Jan 9, 2012 6:40 pm
... What you guys think" ?...
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Grant Sterling
fccmoose
Jan 9, 2012 8:45 pm
... Do I (or should a Stoic) believe that violence is sometimes the answer? Yes, I think this is not only true but OBVIOUSLY true. Now, a caveat. Violence is...
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Alexander Alvarenga
moltronstoic
Jan 10, 2012 6:15 am
Thanks for the answer....
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Alexander Alvarenga
moltronstoic
Jan 10, 2012 6:20 am
Hey people of the forum. Could you share some ideas or links to good reading material about how stoics deal with insults and the looking for approval or...
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e.grossheide
Jan 10, 2012 10:52 am
Hello, In my opinion violence can never be the answer. Violence (according to my understanding) is physical force which is driven by emotional states like...
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e.grossheide
Jan 10, 2012 10:57 am
Hello, My name is Eva-Maria and I live in Germany. English is not my native language but I can read and write it well enough, I think. I am just reading the...
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Jules Evans
londonstoic
Jan 10, 2012 11:02 am
I can't think of any reference to it - strange that they should make no mention of it, isn't it? ________________________________ From: e.grossheide...
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TheophileEscargot
snailman100
Jan 10, 2012 11:51 am
Welcome to the forum!...
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TheophileEscargot
snailman100
Jan 10, 2012 11:52 am
I think it has to be seen in context. In general, the afterlife wasn't a big part of Greco-Roman pagan religion, which was mostly focused on sacrifice, ritual...
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Kevin
kevin11_c
Jan 10, 2012 12:04 pm
From memory I recall in Marcus thoughts along the lines of be rejoined with the Logos. Maybe a couple similar thoughts in Epictetus. I doubt they concieved of...
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Michel Daw
michelgdaw
Jan 10, 2012 12:14 pm
The is a paper in the Classical Quaterly (2009) which discusses this very thing. ...
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JIM GODDARD
jim660331
Jan 10, 2012 12:32 pm
Hello Eva-Maria, Welcome to the Forum. I hope you find it rewarding as part of your Stoic journey. I haven't read the Seddon book but I've read quite a few...
