The Last Attachment: A Dialogue The ancient Stoics with whom we are familiar include a number that were active in Roman public life, for example Seneca and...
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Jeffrey Smart
smartja23
Aug 4, 2002 11:43 am
As one who serves in the military, I find this dialogue very interesting. It does cause one to think about duty, war, and the present situation we find...
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charlesbricebroadway@...
charlesbrice...
Aug 4, 2002 9:07 pm
(Note: This e-mail was sent from a web page, the from address cannot be verified.) I saw this on one of the messageboards that I frequent on the Motley Fool, ...
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tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Aug 5, 2002 7:07 am
In the case of the atomic bombs, the situation is actually simpler than it seems. Japan was looking to make peace, and had made overtures by various means. ...
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Jeffrey Smart
smartja23
Aug 6, 2002 8:01 pm
The decision to drop the atomic bombs could never have been so simple. J Smart tom_paines_ghost wrote:In the case of the atomic bombs, the situation is...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Aug 6, 2002 8:13 pm
I thought I remembered seeing somewhere in the Stoic classics a passage that indicated that Stoics might be cited in support of the divine right of kings...
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tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Aug 6, 2002 11:48 pm
After having invested quite a lot of money and resources in developing the bomb, there was a need to show results... As to testing the effects, both of the...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Aug 7, 2002 12:52 am
As far as I know, the author of this article is not a Stoic. http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0730.html LWH, CBB...
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Fortunatus
tlfortunatus
Aug 7, 2002 12:54 am
... Out of curiosity, do you have any evidence for these allegations, or are you basing them on your personal interpretation of the events? If you do have...
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joseph cris
jcris11
Aug 7, 2002 1:36 am
... The PAST. What is in it as a Stoic? Like science, we can postulate on how the atomic bomb was made, the behind-the-scenes decisions to drop or not to and...
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R&F Bamford
scipan_rick
Aug 7, 2002 2:16 am
CCB said... ... She dispenses wise advise. The fact that she is a feminist got me wondering... Did the ancient Stoics have anything to say about "a woman's...
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Fortunatus
tlfortunatus
Aug 7, 2002 2:26 am
... I'm not really sure what you mean here. If you're reacting to the questions I posed to tom_paines_ghost, then you may have misunderstood my purpose for...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Aug 7, 2002 3:05 am
You might be interested in Martha C. Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire. She imagines a female student in the various schools of classical philosophy and...
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pdlanagan
Aug 7, 2002 5:20 am
... passage ... right ... or another of our classical ... Dr Garrett, Perhaps this is the passage you seek: Book XI, 18. "[If any have offended against thee,...
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pdlanagan
Aug 7, 2002 5:30 am
Didn't Musonius Rufus, a teacher of Epictetus, leave some writings advocating the equality of women as students of philosophy? I confess I have not read any of...
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tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Aug 7, 2002 5:37 am
What exactly would you like evidence for? The history of Japanese peace overatures is well established, even in some of the early histories; I can certainly...
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tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Aug 7, 2002 5:45 am
Those who fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it- Santayanna. Certainly examining historical situations is an appropriate way of gaining knowledge...
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tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Aug 7, 2002 5:52 am
In Greek society women were not even fitting objects of love; very few of them were philosophers, and their writings largely known for being written by a women...
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Caleb Williamson
caleb@...
Aug 7, 2002 2:48 pm
Why isn't it fair to call Plato a feminist? In his Republic, they serve in the military and can be Rulers. He abolishes the patriarchial family for the upper...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Aug 7, 2002 5:41 pm
If you read Republic V carefully you see that Plato hedges his gender egalitarianism in significant ways. And "weak" does not seem to mean only physical...
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tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Aug 7, 2002 5:54 pm
Because feminism is an ideology invented over 2000 years after these people lived, that has many underlying assumtions they would not have easily grasped or...
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Steve Marquis
smarquis082801
Aug 9, 2002 4:52 am
Joseph wrote: ____________________ We may theorize with so many IFs and BUTs, but the bottomline is still...it was DONE. How should I live my life knowing the...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Aug 9, 2002 10:20 am
Charles quoted a long post from "one of the messageboards that I frequent on ... east. There was an engineer, a manager, an electrician, and me. I remained ...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Aug 9, 2002 5:29 pm
Dr. Seddon, This is an interesting issue. I'd like to throw a little more in this discussion. In The Silence of the Lambs (the book), Hannibal Lecter says he...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Aug 9, 2002 8:59 pm
A determinist would have to say that whatever *we* call evil must have a cause, since all events are sufficiently determined by prior events that they could...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Aug 9, 2002 11:11 pm
... No. But this does not mean that, all things being equal, people do not have the capacity to reflect on their actions and choose not to commit evil acts if...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Aug 9, 2002 11:24 pm
Dr. Seddon, You wrote: "No. But this does not mean that, all things being equal, people do not have the capacity to reflect on their actions and choose not to ...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Aug 10, 2002 12:15 am
Hello Charles, ... Because they are mistaken about what is good, and what is truly in their interest. ... Not to the Stoic. My understanding of this is that...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Aug 10, 2002 12:34 am
Dr. Seddon, You wrote: "Because they are mistaken about what is good, and what is truly in their interest." How and why does this mistake occur? LWH, CBB ... ...
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tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Aug 10, 2002 12:54 am
Mistaken, or evil? Most Americans lack the context to understand the Israli/Palestinian conflict, and see only simplified media messages at best. The media...
