Dr. Garrett, I am no physicist, but it seems that there is a scientific explanation for these things. From the evidence so far, the universe was created from...
... From: Steve Marquis [mailto:smarquis@...] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:37 PM To: stoics@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [stoics] Cosmological...
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dchave@...
Sep 2, 2002 4:14 am
The observable Universe has a border, some fifteen billion light years distant in all directions, imposed on us by what is called "the expansion." It is ...
Keith's question: _________________ Do you agree that pain, grief, etc. are not really bad, and that their apparent badness is only a matter of faulty...
Your points about Epicureanism and Buddhism are well taken, Levichi. I did, in fact, read your posts, though I didn't respond because of haste to get out for a...
Fellow Stoics, I've been doing some thinking and contemplating concerning what the proper Stoic approach to politics and justice should be. This is what I have...
Laws exist not for the sake of the masses, but to protect the wise- men from the masses. - Ep ... what ... very ... Republic. ... reality, ... a ... author ......
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dchave@...
Sep 8, 2002 7:50 pm
... Read again. The core of the republic was not a KING! It was the Guardians who ruled the republic...and their schooling in philosophy more or less keeps...
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Caleb Williamson
caleb@...
Sep 8, 2002 10:24 pm
I don't think Charles is so far off track. There is one passage in the Republic where Plato says that it doesn't matter whether there is one Ruler or many,...
I have read Plato and NM. Unfortunately, I have never read Zeno. It seems to me that Zeno advocated a society/state without regard to the practicality or...
Hello, "Philosophie antique" is the first french publication specialized in Ancient philosophy. It has been very recently created and offers possibility to...
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dchave@...
Sep 9, 2002 6:10 am
... The same 'ethical' democratic notions that ordered Socrates death for what amounts to mere speech? Those who were bravest would have greater 'mating'...
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dchave@...
Sep 9, 2002 6:52 am
... And place Sophia with Apatheia...epictetus called it the target for which we should aim. Without a target(an ideal) nothing happens. Both Plato and ...
If memory serves, Pythagoras preceded Plato by about 100 years. Hugieia! Brett http://www.ucom.net/~vegan/ ... From: dchave@... Remember it was Plato who...
Charles, Actually if you are going to make use of Machiavelli you might want to disregard "The Prince" and take up his "Discourses on Livy" where he takes up a...
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Caleb Williamson
caleb@...
Sep 9, 2002 3:16 pm
My point was simply to show that a reasonable person might see problems with the goverment described in Plato's Republic, not to show that that government was...
This Stoic, like many of our predecessors who had a profession of teaching or public service in classical times, has been very busy with his profession lately...
I haven't had time recently to read many of the messages in the Forum. I finally got around to the short thread of discussions on Plato, Aristotle and Zeno. I...
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dchave@...
Sep 16, 2002 6:10 am
... I would like to know of anyones comments here on the Book by Zdravko Planinc, Platos political Philosophy: Prudence in the Republic and Laws...
Fellow Stoics, I've given further thought to the issue of Zeno's Republic, and this is what I have. I believe that Zeno's conception (as I understand it)...
This is one of those peculiar coincidences in life... Before today, I had never even heard of Karl Popper. But I am listening to a philosophical lecture...
It's interesting that someone who thinks that belief in a welfare state is a form of fundamentalism has discovered Karl Popper. In his political writings in...
Dr. Garrett, PJ O'Rourke pointed out in 1991 in his book Parliament of Whores that the amount of money that it would take to get all Americans that were below...
I agree with Charles that some people seem to prefer poverty and, where possible, manipulating the system to actually developing and maintaining the discipline...
It has been argued that they are failing. Certainly the system is far from perfect. But does it work compared to not having a social safety net? A lot of ills...
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dchave@...
Sep 20, 2002 6:24 am
... What else is the stock market but collectivism for those with capital? Typical free market double think: Economic darwinism is ok, except when it comes to...
