Dear Stoics, Charlie Croker has a talk with Conrad about his background, and then brings up the subject of Epictetus. "Oh yeah. Well...okay...what does...
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T.MYRVANG@...
Mar 2, 1999 11:30 am
Dear Stoics, The next day, Charlie and his entourage are at the Turpmtine plantation in South Georgia. He opened the Book at random to a passage that said: "...
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Steve Marquis
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Mar 3, 1999 3:58 am
Greetings Fellow Stoics, On 26 Feb Steve Turnage wrote: "Thank you for answering my three questions. Please answer one more, What does freedom mean to a...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Mar 3, 1999 4:49 am
What would Zeno say if he were reincarnated in our own time and were convinced by the efforts of modern science that the physics underpinning ancient Stoic...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Mar 4, 1999 12:39 am
Steve M. asks ... anyone in the group have a clear understanding of the Stoic position on free will? ... You folks will have to judge how clear the following...
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Raśl Santiago Seba...
rsebazco@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 5, 1999 3:37 am
Stoics: The following is a response by Prof. Vincent Cook of "The Epicurean Philosophy Page" to Prof: Jan Edward Garrette's comments concerning his view of ...
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Keith Seddon
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Mar 4, 1999 10:36 pm
... having ... so ... everybody's ... These are wonderful sayings. I'd love to know which works they are from so that I can see them in context. Steve, can you...
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@xxx.xxxxxxxx...
Mar 6, 1999 12:21 am
Some time ago I sent a post based on Lawrence Becker's book, A New Stoicism (Princeton U. Press, 1998). It implicitly contains the answer to Prof. Vincent...
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Steve Marquis
smarquis@xxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 6, 1999 4:45 am
... Certainly, Keith. Title: The Tenets of Stoicism, Assembled and Systematized, From the Works of L. Annaeus Seneca Author: H.B. Timothy Publisher: Adolf M....
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Jan Edward Garrett
jgarrett@xxx.xxxxxxxx...
Mar 6, 1999 1:30 pm
At least, if Cicero's Stoic speaker in On Goals (De Finibus) is to be trusted: "Every animal, as soon as it is born...is congenial to itself and inclined to...
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Steve Marquis
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Mar 8, 1999 1:57 am
Greetings Fellow Stoics, I wish to thank Jan Garrett for his lengthy answer to my question concerning the Stoic position on free will and determinism. Because...
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Keith Seddon
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Mar 8, 1999 12:53 pm
Further to Steve's very nice quotations from Seneca, here is a good one from Cicero. I have two translations (of the same text) to hand: This is the sort of...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Mar 9, 1999 2:11 am
Thanks to Keith for the Cicero quote, from which I excerpt the following passage for commentary. ... Sometimes it is suggested that because the sage is wise...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Mar 11, 1999 11:43 pm
A pantheist correspondent of mine sent me this notice. Very interesting, about the growing interest in Stoicism. Erik is quoted in the article, and the...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Mar 12, 1999 4:34 am
In my capacity as Moderator of the Forum, I have received notices of four recent additions to the Forum, although I know them only by e-mail address. Welcome...
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Andre' Slabber
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Mar 12, 1999 1:52 pm
... self-sufficient ... Here in Holland we have a saying that goes like this: "Speaking is Silver, Silence is Gold" Just because people do not respond to...
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Steve Marquis
smarquis@xxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 12, 1999 7:43 pm
Greetings Fellow Stoics, Andre' wrote: "Speaking is Silver, Silence is Golden". I've been silent myself for awhile simply because there's been no one to talk...
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Richard Dodson
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Mar 12, 1999 10:43 pm
... It has been noted several times that the state of being a Sage is an ideal toward which Stoics aspire. Since the state of being a Sage involves [is the...
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Richard Dodson
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Mar 12, 1999 11:20 pm
... The alternative position is that there is no purpose and that the choice of an end-point/direction/good is arbitrary. That the best we can hope for is a...
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Raśl Santiago Seba...
rsebazco@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Mar 13, 1999 7:49 am
Fellow Stoics: The following is a response by Prof. Vincent Cook of "The Epicurean Philosophy Page" to Prof: Jan Edward Garrette's comments concerning his ...
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Paul Cousoulis
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Mar 13, 1999 4:20 pm
... Again, I find myself more in line with Plato than with Stoicism. Of course we should grieve. It may be possible to eliminate the pain of loss by changing...
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Yinshih@xxx.xxx
Mar 13, 1999 6:01 pm
Stoicism does not mean indifference to loss or to worry over the well-being of a beloved. It means a wise discernment in accepting things beyond our control. ...
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JRigby0000@xxx.xxx
Mar 13, 1999 7:41 pm
I have mentioned this before, but I believe that stoicism without emotion is pathological. Reason is the acme of human functioning, not the foundation. It...
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Harun Kucuk
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Mar 13, 1999 8:30 pm
... to ... My opinion is that true love, free of all obsession is always a dynamic good, it stays on none and moves constantly, waxes and wanes and does all ...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Mar 14, 1999 5:13 am
Thanks to everybody who has offered his or her thoughts on the stoic sage as friend. Perhaps I'll return to that tomorrow. Today, some responses to one of our...
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Cyberstoic@xxx.xxx
Mar 14, 1999 6:49 pm
I'm sure I speak for all of us by expressing a note of gratitude to our Moderator for his untiring efforts on behalf of the Forum and as a defender of Stoic...
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Jan Edward Garrett
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Mar 15, 1999 1:35 am
Welcome to those who have joined in the last couple days, Alphonse, sharon, raymond, jwood, and z, who has the shortest e-mail username I have encountered in...
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Pmbaysd@xxx.xxx
Mar 15, 1999 8:51 am
Peace all-- I find myself in the rare and delightful position of finding at least partial agreement with what all of you have been saying regarding friendship...
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Keith Seddon
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Mar 15, 1999 7:19 pm
Paul wrote in reply to Jan's remarks about grieving at the loss of one's ... course we ... changing our ... lives, but ... that we ... the ... As I understand...
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David Carter
davcar@xxx.xxxx
Mar 15, 1999 10:07 pm
Fellow Stoics: Perhaps a better approach to grief mourning would be to express our grief and lost in private and not make it a public display. This may be a...
