Less like intellectuals oppose capitalism, than that intellectuals recognize the flaws of the system and have the language to critique them. A system motivated...
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R&F Bamford
scipan_rick
Oct 2, 2002 2:46 am
Fellow Stoics... I just found out that today (October 1st) has been designated as "Vegetarian Day," though I don't know by who, or by what authority. While...
4602
Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 2, 2002 4:06 am
Traditional Stoic thinking seems to me to be anthropocentric (or if you like theocentric with the understanding that rationality gives humans the possibility...
4603
dchave@...
Oct 3, 2002 4:12 am
... I have an uncommon attitude to the whole eco/veg discussion. I do agree that the ethical dominion does in fact extend to animals in general(all is one) and...
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joseph cris
jcris11
Oct 4, 2002 12:11 am
Hello Stoics, Watch out you vegetarian, meat-hater people. I am now in the process of setting up the world foundation against cruelty to plants and vegetables....
4605
Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 4, 2002 2:51 am
War and Empire: The Return of the Strange Gods In the first story I told you about the strange gods [about last May], the gods agreed to take on a special task...
4606
Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 4, 2002 3:03 am
I noticed that nobody responded to Caleb's challenge. I just had time to read it now myself. The method Caleb refers to is the latter day reformulation of the...
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Mr Geoffrey Howard
ssojourner
Oct 4, 2002 5:19 pm
"live with humor." ha ha ha thanks joseph. ... ===== Geoffrey Howard Asst. Professor of Theatre Missouri Valley College http://www.moval.edu Personal Homepage:...
4608
heliogabulus
Oct 5, 2002 12:27 am
i would like to ask members of this group about available translations of epictetus--which editions do they like, what they like about them, and how they think...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Oct 5, 2002 1:51 am
Fellow Stoics, I have spent he past month or so researching and reading the philosophy of Ayn Rand primarily concerning her ethics. I read all of the...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 5, 2002 4:44 am
II When the gods reconvened in the Olympian conference room to discuss rules of justice for international society, they once more accepted the limitation of...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 5, 2002 4:44 am
My own judgment is that Ayn Rand is miles away from Aristotle. For one thing, any virtues that Rand would have recognized would have to have been connected...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Oct 5, 2002 10:33 am
... These are all the editions of Epictetus that I have come across on my searches. Those marked *** are in print: Epictetus (Note: 'Enchiridion',...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Oct 5, 2002 11:38 am
Dr. Garrett, I think you are too kind to Aristotle. How can he be nothing other than an elitist and a sexist? From my reading, Aristotle declares that a short...
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tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Oct 5, 2002 5:59 pm
Ahh, judging the people of the past on the basis of todays political correctness. Holding Aristotle to task for accepting slavery and holding what are today...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 5, 2002 6:25 pm
IV “I have a concern,” said Kappa, “which requires us to focus on a special situation. We have seen that sometimes one country, with the greatest ...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 5, 2002 6:25 pm
There's no point in my commenting on your extensive quotes from Aristotle, Charles, because they seem for the most part to be from accurate translations. There...
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heliogabulus
Oct 6, 2002 5:23 pm
Thank you, Dr. Seddon, for your reply--it's a great help. I looked at your pdf translation of the Handbook--it's excellent, and the glossary was a very good...
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Robert Eddison
rteddison
Oct 7, 2002 12:12 am
I have recently been re-reading Aristotle's discussion of akrasia (incontinence / moral weakness) in the seventh book of Nicomachean Ethics. I should be...
4619
Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 7, 2002 12:45 am
The Stoics denied akrasia in the strict sense of the term. Apparently there was a good deal of discussion of Euripides' Medea in ancient times. The...
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Robert Eddison
rteddison
Oct 8, 2002 4:22 pm
Jan E Garrett <jangarrett@...> ... Dear Jan, Thanks for the reply and references. I have now looked at the Medea references in the Discourses and at...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Oct 9, 2002 1:35 am
Dear Dr. C, I just received a copy of your new book The Story of Ethics (Prentice-Hall) and was looking it over to see if it might be of use in my teaching in...
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R&F Bamford
scipan_rick
Oct 9, 2002 2:28 am
Someone with a PhD made a mistake like that? tisk, tisk, tisk... Kinda shakes one's confidence in authority figures. Why, next thing you know, we'll find...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Oct 9, 2002 8:07 am
Fellow Stoics, I subscribe to an email list dedicated to Epicurean philosophy in order to learn and better appreciate their perspective on the issues. I am not...
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R&F Bamford
scipan_rick
Oct 9, 2002 11:46 am
It must be hard to get the sand out of their hair when they come up for air. While I admire anyone who is a being of peace, I think it is better to make some...
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Lawrence C. Becker
lcbecker2
Oct 9, 2002 2:31 pm
Robert and Jan, I think the most thorough and fascinating recent work on the view that what appears to be weakness of will is due to something like the stoics'...
4626
charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
Oct 10, 2002 12:06 am
Rick, The problem that Epicureans have, and what they continue to debate on their list is the simple fact that there is no garden to retreat to. It can't be...
4627
dchave@...
Oct 10, 2002 6:05 am
I enjoyed the allegory of the Statue of Freedom that you sent to W. I must say that neoclassical inspired armed Goddess is a "Minerva"...That armed Goddess ...
4628
tom_paines_ghost
tom_paines_g...
Oct 10, 2002 8:31 pm
So the Congress is giving little Georgie Bush the lesser a blank check to launch aggressive preemtive war. The fragile framework of international law is...
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Robert Eddison
rteddison
Oct 10, 2002 9:44 pm
"Lawrence C. Becker" <becker@...> Dear Larry, Thanks for the reference. It sounds very interesting, and your summary was not too cryptic for me....
