Hi Steve, ... For my own purposes, I've decided that "character disorder" is the right term to define this universal viciousness. Psychoanalysts (perhaps...
Just a minor point of terminology. I took the original comment, "we're all psychotic", as humorous. If everybody has a character disorder then, almost by...
Adding the idea of Stoic psychology to the long existing Stoic philosophy would be a helpful development. There is, in current usage, a problem with the word...
Although not intended as a "Stoic psychology," Martha Nussbaum's "Therapy of Desire" comes very close to your idea, Malcolm. So does Hadot's "Phylosophy as a...
Dave writes: _____________ My own view is that everyone (except the Sage) is somewhat character disordered, though most are not disordered enough to be...
Good questions, Steve Regarding question #2, whether informal reasoning was available to the Stoics, I think the answer is Yes. At least two non-Stoic schools...
I was assuming that "wise" included at least that G-d was not lacking the empirical information or the capacity for generalization that well-informed, unbiased...
Stoic theology was entirely about the natural or material world. The problem with proof for Stoic theology, it seems to me, is that Zeus (especially) is an...
... If you believe the Hubble telescope makes any significant change in this factor, you are like those who claimed that G-d couldn't sink the Titanic. ... Or...
I apologize for the delay in my responses. I have been away for the holiday weekend. I also apologize for the length of this post, as I am responding to many...
What is the source of the empathy and compassion? Where does it derive? Is it in certain brain cells, or does it arise from somewhere deep within that cannot...
... Where does it derive?" The human mind. ... deep within that cannot be easily quantified?" In a complex network of brain cells, as I understand it, though I...
Are'nt empathy and compassion the names we give to quintessentially social phenomena? Determinism aside, the various levels of arousal (feeling even) are...
Karlton writes: _____________ If a person wants to learn about the God of Christianity the place to start is the Bible--go and see what God says about Himself....
... This may be a bit off-topic, so I'll keep it very brief. The suggestion that someone start reading the Bible at the Gospel of John is a suggestion I have...
If one is a scientist interested in emotion and were to start from the assumption that any emotion (e.g., emphathy, compassion) is the result of a movement of...
Just so - these occur as human social activities as well as, apparently, solipsistic phenomena. We are very noticeably social animals. The experience of...
... .................... For those with more social consciousness than mystical inclinations, there is an interesting (partial) translation of the Christian...
... So to defend belief in the supernatural, I must find something that violates natural law. But if I were to find such a thing, then you would immediately...
Whether the experience is social or individual, emotions are always individual phenomena, that is, something experienced by an individual. So, unlike Richard's...
Is anybody aware of what the winmail.dat attachment is? I received it in an attachment to one of Maurcio's latest posts. I do usually open unfamiliar...
Where is Bishop BerkeIey when you need him? Is an individual experience only an individual phenomenom? Not that I believe anything other than animals have...
The winmail.dat attachment is a fluky little bug produced by The Evil Empire's Outlook program. It doesn't hurt anything. [Although, of course, somebody ...
Empathy may have multiple causes, but a cause is not the same as its effect. The causes of empathy can only produce the effect of empathy if they operate on a...
Hello Richard, ... As a Stoic, I do not believe that animals have emotions. Emotions are judgements about the nature and value of things. Animals are not able...
Just as a Christian can say that the world was created within 144 hours in the year 4004 BC. Fortunately, many Christians are more reasonable than this and...
I don't recall any Stoic texts on whether nonhuman animals have experiences. I seem to recall that Aristotle, who would have agreed with the classical Stoics...
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