Hi Steeve, You wrote: "I'll second Geoffrey's request for an explanation of Vipassana meditation. I am quite interested in both areas (suspension of judgement...
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Doug P.
dio1701
May 1, 2003 2:20 pm
Steve, If I understand correctly doesn't your idea of impartiality happen by default? Since our sense perceptions are received as a natural consequence of...
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marquis95960
May 1, 2003 4:02 pm
Doug wrote: ________________ Since our sense perceptions are received as a natural consequence of existence. I can't imagine the mechanism that would allow me...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
May 1, 2003 6:07 pm
The resources which we found at "Stoic Practice" <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stoic_practice/> to be most helpful on Stoic meditation and spiritual exercises...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
May 1, 2003 8:15 pm
Steve, I think that the process which you have been describing is called "apperception." I found this definition of apperception: perception as modified and...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
May 2, 2003 1:56 am
This is the sort of thing that the ancient Epicureans used to say; they held that the senses could not lie, although they admitted that we could make false...
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tillich16
May 4, 2003 1:19 pm
Stoicism gives us the impression of indifference at the beginning if we confined us to the direct and apparent content of its doctrine, I also feel it does...
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philip eaton
philip042039
May 5, 2003 12:58 am
Does this mean that the only person a stoic is reponsible to is himself? Is The correct thing to do is to ignore the entire world and only withdraw inward and...
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tillich16
May 5, 2003 1:29 pm
I must emphasize that the obligation of one¡¯s own can¡¯t be separated from other beings. One¡¯s obligation is always the source of other¡¯s right....
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
May 5, 2003 5:34 pm
Fellow Stoics, If someone has the time, what is the difference between the Stoic and the Epicurean concepts of friendship? Thanks. LWH, CBB...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
May 5, 2003 7:30 pm
Recent threads (Marquis on dialogue, compare <http://home.mebtel.net/~kirchoff/Dialogue.htm>, and Buzare on meditation) lead, I think, to an examination of the...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
May 6, 2003 2:02 am
For a start, Charles, pull out your copy of Long and Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, vol. 1, the index on p. 509 (1987 edition). It will point you to...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
May 6, 2003 8:08 am
Dr. Garrett, I had already gone there. I find myself spending a lot of time with L & S, and it is my reading there that prompted my question in the first...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
May 6, 2003 10:29 am
I have just discovered a new edition that reprints a fascimile of Long's 1903 Discourses of Epictetus (2 volumes) in an agreeably large typeface on good paper...
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marquis95960
May 6, 2003 3:34 pm
Dave wrote: ________________ It seems to me that the exercise of suspension of judgment is the dynamic core of a `therapy', which can release us from...
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
May 6, 2003 8:31 pm
My thinking in this area is also fuzzy, even though I did take a close look at the subject last year. I think that the Stoics use suspension of judgment as a...
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Bret Burns
bretburns
May 6, 2003 10:09 pm
I can't say that I know enough of Epicurus' philosophy to contrast his specific model of friendship with that of Stoicism (though that doesn't seem to be...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
May 6, 2003 11:44 pm
Hello Philip, ... Does this mean that the only person a stoic is responsible to is himself? Is The correct thing to do is to ignore the entire world and only...
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philip eaton
philip042039
May 7, 2003 12:06 am
I am interested in Keiths response to my queries but my first thought after reading them is: Who makes the rules for Stoics to follow?' Philip ... Do you...
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philip eaton
philip042039
May 7, 2003 12:22 am
Dave wrote: Used Knowledge with (Psychology) What do these two words have to do with each other? Philip ... Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster....
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Dave Kelly
ptypes
May 7, 2003 1:27 am
Hello Philip, I don't think that I used these two words together. Wasn't it Steve? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stoics/message/5646 Dave ... ===== Stoic News ...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
May 7, 2003 2:38 am
Are you talking about the Stoic precepts concerning preferred and rejected indifferents as contrasted with things that are really choiceworthy and...
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charlesbricebroadway
charlesbrice...
May 7, 2003 2:53 am
The ancient arguments against Epicurus are just as valid today as they were in his time. The only way Epicurus could overcome them was to keep redefining the...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
May 7, 2003 2:59 am
Steve, It's been a while since I studied it, but Julia Annas probably addresses these issues in her book Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind. (I believe it was...
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Steve Marquis
marquis95960
May 7, 2003 3:22 am
Philip wrote: ________________ . . . Knowledge with (Psychology) What do these two words have to do with each other? ________________ Hi Philip. Knowledge is...
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Steve Marquis
marquis95960
May 7, 2003 1:51 pm
Hi Charles. You are typing up a storm, and before I could get to your first post, you've got the second going. I have respect for Epicureanism, since it is...
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philip eaton
philip042039
May 7, 2003 5:32 pm
Hi Dave, Please except my apology for atributing Steves quote to you. I see from Steve's response that it was indeed his statement. As to my query on rules I...
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philip eaton
philip042039
May 7, 2003 10:38 pm
Steve Wrote: "Psychology is the science of the human mind." My next question is: Whose science and who determines what science is? It sounds to me as if...
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Keith Seddon
khs10uk
May 7, 2003 11:00 pm
Hello Phillip, ... Perhaps this is a cue to post Jan's 'Basic Ideas of the Stoics' which you will find at his website http://www.wku.edu/~garreje/stoabasi.htm...
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Steve Marquis
marquis95960
May 8, 2003 2:15 am
Philip wrote: _____________ Whose science and who determines what science is [psychology, that is, SM]? It sounds to me as if Steve may be a psychologist or at...
