"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,...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Mar 3, 2003 4:17 am
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 ...
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marquis95960 <marq...
marquis95960
Mar 3, 2003 9:24 pm
Jan wrote: _____________ Libertarianism is not entailed by Stoicism in my view, and perhaps autonomy-centered liberalism is not entailed by it either. But I ...
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Paul <pdlanagan@.....
pdlanagan
Mar 4, 2003 1:46 am
... "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...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Mar 4, 2003 3:26 am
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...
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MurrellB@...
beatrix91910
Mar 4, 2003 5:54 pm
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...
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Steve Marquis
marquis95960
Mar 5, 2003 5:16 am
Jan wrote: ______________ . . . the virtue of justice is concretized only in the recognition of certain duties that we have toward others. Now, these duties...
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AOR Central
aorcentral
Mar 5, 2003 7:39 am
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...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Mar 5, 2003 12:07 pm
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...
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labienus@...
tlfortunatus
Mar 5, 2003 3:10 pm
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...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Mar 6, 2003 2:14 am
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...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Mar 6, 2003 2:20 am
The Stoic Place has links to classical Stoic works in translation, including most of those that have been mentioned so far. Go to ...
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Steve Marquis
marquis95960
Mar 6, 2003 4:27 am
Paul asked: ______________ " . . . what selections of indifferents do I make that are most likely to increase the chance that the person I am relating with...
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mattreve
Mar 6, 2003 5:48 am
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...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
Mar 6, 2003 4:24 pm
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)....
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marquis95960
Mar 6, 2003 10:49 pm
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 ...
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Robert Eddison
rteddison
Mar 7, 2003 2:38 am
"mattreve"; <mattreve@...> ... "Live according to nature." Its usual Latin rendering is with the infinitive "secundum naturam vivere". The imperative...
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Fortunatus
tlfortunatus
Mar 7, 2003 3:35 am
... Not exactly. I believe the imperative should be "secundum naturam vivite". The singular imperative would be "secundum naturam vive". -Conrad -- "Since...
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mattreve
Mar 7, 2003 6:01 am
Thanks for the replies. Another question then, does the motto use the infinitive or the imperative? ... viva", though...
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Andrew Campbell
rev_aac
Mar 7, 2003 5:00 pm
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...
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AOR Central
aorcentral
Mar 8, 2003 5:11 am
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...
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Fortunatus
tlfortunatus
Mar 8, 2003 5:16 am
... 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?"...
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John Laerum
jlaerum
Mar 8, 2003 10:50 am
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...
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mattreve
Mar 8, 2003 4:53 pm
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...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Mar 10, 2003 3:29 am
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...
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Mr Geoffrey Howard
ssojourner
Mar 10, 2003 5:58 pm
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...
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labienus@...
tlfortunatus
Mar 10, 2003 6:24 pm
... vive = live (imperative singular) secundam = according to naturam = nature -Conrad...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Mar 10, 2003 11:14 pm
From Brian Orend, War and International Justice: A Kantian Perspective (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000)...continued from part 1 Minimally Just States ...
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mattreve
Mar 11, 2003 11:19 pm
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...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Mar 12, 2003 3:43 am
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...
