"The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan."--CLAUSEWITZ These words have been ringing in my head since first reading them in an unlikely place,...
I recently created the chart at the following url for use in my Ethics course at Western Kentucky University. I am trying to capture the essentials of a ...
Jan wrote: _____________ Libertarianism is not entailed by Stoicism in my view, and perhaps autonomy-centered liberalism is not entailed by it either. But I ...
... "Given that we cannot make a virtuous choice for another, social relations in essence boils down to what selections of indifferents do I make that are most...
If we suppose (as seems reasonable given the emphasis of the ancient Stoics on virtue) that the goal for the Stoic is the promotion of virtue, then we have to...
charlesbricebroadway@... writes: << Stoicism is a good plan. It's only enemy is the dream of a perfect plan. If there is a better plan, I have yet to...
Jan wrote: ______________ . . . the virtue of justice is concretized only in the recognition of certain duties that we have toward others. Now, these duties...
Dear all: I've been searching for text versions of Seneca's Letters, as well as his Discourses, with little success. Does anyone know of an online text library...
Hello Arin, ... Have a look at Ben Schneider's site at http://www.stoics.com/index.html There are links to Seneca's writings at the bottom of the page, or...
Hello Arin, ... http://www.geocities.com/~stilicho/literature/index.html has links to a huge number of Latin works and their translations. Scroll down to...
Steve writes, "I don't see the necessity of the move from the virtue of justice to rights. Our capacity for virtue is endowed to us by nature since we are...
Paul asked: ______________ " . . . what selections of indifferents do I make that are most likely to increase the chance that the person I am relating with...
Hello everyone, Just wanted to take the time to introduce myself. I'm a 21 year-old college senior in Virginia, US. My first exposure to Stoicism was reading...
Hello Matt, ... Stoic works? <<< Not that I know of. But you might like the 2-volume edition of THE HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHERS, edited by Long and Sedley (CUP)....
Jan wrote: _____________ They [the ancient Stoics, SM] understood moral development as a process; you must walk before you can run, and you must crawl before ...
"mattreve" <mattreve@...> ... "Live according to nature." Its usual Latin rendering is with the infinitive "secundum naturam vivere". The imperative...
... Not exactly. I believe the imperative should be "secundum naturam vivite". The singular imperative would be "secundum naturam vive". -Conrad -- "Since...
Greetings, and thank you to the moderators for adding me to the list. I have recently read Pierre Hadot's _What Is Ancient Philosophy?_ and was struck by his...
Thanks everyone for the links...I will check them out soon . Speaking of Seneca, does anyone remember the line from "Candide" where the Italian man named...
... I'd use the plural imperative for the motto, if I were you. -Conrad -- "Since death alone is certain and the time of death uncertain, what should I do?"...
Welcome Drew I am also quite new to the list and do not post very often. It was the fact that Stoicism is much more than theorethical speculations but also a...
Then "secundum naturam vivite" it is. To be honest, part of the reason I asked is because I'm planning on getting a tattoo of the motto. They are wise words...
Below are some excerpts from a relatively new book on Kantian just war theory. Given the obvious importance of avoiding wars that cannot meet basic criteria...
i looked back in the posts.. but i think i missed something. what does "secundam naturam viva" or whatever the final deritive is... mean? ... ===== Geoffrey...
From Brian Orend, War and International Justice: A Kantian Perspective (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000)...continued from part 1 Minimally Just States ...
Conrad, I just wanted some clarification, would the motto be "secundum naturam vivite" or would it be "secundam naturam vivite" with the -am ending instead of...
It is "secundum" . . . And if you are going to get it tatooed, I recommend you look into the verb form a bit more. It seems to me that the infinitive form (in...
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