Thanks Jan, that is very interesting. Karlton Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:49:28 -0600 From: Jan E Garrett <jangarrett@...> Subject: Background for the...
So far the presidential and local elections have reminded me of my twin nephews, who are about 18 months old. One will pick something up, just out of...
I have a growing concern that many people today are unable to use Critical Thinking. I believe this election largely proves the fact. People don't appear to be...
... am currently reading Long's book, which I find very interesting (as was Hadot's Citadel), and I believe I get the point. However, I cannot buy it, sorry....
Karlton asks: _______________ Are we heading to a place where Critical Thinking is completely absent, and people will become unable to evaluate and process...
I agree that it is foolish to drive ourselves crazy at the craziness of those who go through life without using their thinking faculties. I'm not suggesting we...
This question goes along with Critical Thinking, though maybe diverges slightly from Stoicism. My question is: What do you think of Plato's Republic in light...
Karlton writes: ___________ I am just wondering if it has not become easier to set aside Critical Thinking, and maybe thinking in general in light of so many...
Beyond the phrase "black and white" I can see no contiguity between my post and your desultory response. The drift of my post was that the election process...
I have no trouble telling the two major candidates apart. Critical thinking is only valuable to the extent that it helps you to make decisions. Otherwise it is...
Some time ago, somebody asked in this forum what the last incorrect judgement might be before attaining the rare condition of 'sage'. I can't find the original...
Paul, I might have had something to do with that post. I remember reading (perhaps in the Cambridge Companion)about the idea that a sage must eventually make...
... Much as I think it would be a good idea, getting this demagoguery-dominated government to require serious philosophy in public schools puts us in a serious...
... Plato's republic? You mean the idea of having a separate group of statesmen who are set apart from the rest, not by inheritance, but by their qualification...
A quibble. If x is a state of the universe, then "x" is really something like: (individual object) y is (possessor of property) P at (time) t, e.g., John Kerry...
I would really like to understand the example you gave but after working 75 hours and watching election coverage my mind is not functioning properly. Could you...
Some responses to various threads and ideas on the forum. On critical thinking: "Those who have never learned don't want to learn."--SENECA On the election: ...
John, I had not even seen your post when I sent mine. I am in digest mode. Just interesting coincidence, I wasn't replying to you. Karlton Date: Tue, 02 Nov...
Some of us now have a grand opportunity to practice: "Suffer nothing to disappoint" I think some of the idealism in Plato's Republic might serve us well. ...
Sorry about the mix up Karlton, quite a coincidence. ... I think we always have this opportunity. If we step on a pebble, or become the president we always...
... At least one of us is a Libertarian. I welcome our new Skull & Bones overlord. Which one won again? ;) Yours truly, Nick ... This mail sent through IMP:...
That would be my guess John, of course I also thought Kerry had a good chance of winning--so go figure :-) Karlton Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 03:14:13 -0000 From:...
Dear John and Jan John: not being anywhere near being a sage I may as well reply now rather than wait... You said: ' At first I thought that the last incorrect...
I made an error in my list of examples: logic/correct judgment/incorrect judgment, the last needs to be: Incorrect judgment: y is p at t but 'not y' should be...
Hi Charles, A line of objection to Stoic ethics http://tinyurl.com/3ots6 "1. No external goods and evils are either good or bad for us (since they do not ...
I know that the [classical] Stoics discussed arguments including propositions that contained logical connectives such as "and" and "or" and "if . . . then."...
The last incorrect judgement of a sage is 'I am going to live a little longer'. With certainty, the only correct judgement of a sage at any other time is 'I...
'Don't worry if you believe in God, more worry as to if God believes in you.' I don't know where this quote comes from but I have always liked it. Ok, so the...
Last night I dreamed that I was in a shopping mall, walking behind Spock and his wife, his father and mother. They all had their arms crossed behind their...
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