I like Nigel's idea of a Stoic calendar. I once quipped with a friend that the difference between a philosophy and a religion is that with religion you get...
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Nigel Glassborow
nigel7579
Dec 3, 2004 6:27 am
I am sorry if my views on liberalism offends Nicholas, who signs himself 'a classical liberal'. I will say that I fully understand the problems of who is...
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Nigel Glassborow
nigel7579
Dec 3, 2004 6:27 am
I am a little surprised at the tone of Adam's response to my practices. More so for the fact that nearly everything I said seems to have been twisted. Me 'So...
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 3, 2004 12:08 pm
It is too late for this year, but I could produce an actual wall calendar. If anyone has suggestions for what could be included (in addition to monthly, or...
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Nicholas J. Sarwark
nsarwark
Dec 3, 2004 1:47 pm
Dear Nigel, ... I'm not offended, but I am of the opinion that the liberalism that you laid out is more in the nature of a straw man than in a survey of...
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curt
enkiduq
Dec 3, 2004 2:34 pm
Lets be clear. As far as I can tell the concept of Liberalism being expressed here is without any basis either in Liberal theory or practice. Liberalism in...
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timothyharris29
Dec 3, 2004 5:46 pm
Hello All, Being a Professor of History and a long-time student of stoicism (primarily the Stoicism of Epictetus), I have wanted to ask the following question...
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John
tharasybulsone
Dec 3, 2004 10:23 pm
I have always assumed Spock to be modeled on a Stoic, but have never heard anything certain from anywhere. I think that he is more of a stereotype than any...
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Steve & Oxsana Marquis
marquis95960
Dec 4, 2004 12:38 am
Dr. Harris writes: ______________ I wonder...is there a connection between the so-called "Vulcan logic" and ANY aspect of Stoicism?????? ________________ ...
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Richard Pitts
rick_in_ga
Dec 4, 2004 1:53 am
A Google search turned up the following discussion from 1997. It doesn't answer the question, but does offer some interesting reasoning. ... Eastern ... ...
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Steve & Oxsana Marquis
marquis95960
Dec 4, 2004 5:51 am
Mauricio writes: ______________ Scientific knowledge requires objective observation, where "objective" means a type of observation relatively free from...
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Adam Ophir Shapira
red_vorlon
Dec 4, 2004 5:56 am
... Naw. There's a *lot* more difference than that. ... That could be useful. ... How about a lunar-solar calendar? Each new-moon's day is the first day of a...
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Adam Ophir Shapira
red_vorlon
Dec 4, 2004 6:05 am
... Unfortunately, it is too late, as he is deceased. ... This is not portrayed as something universal among Vulcans, but as something that is specific to...
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Nigel Glassborow
nigel7579
Dec 4, 2004 10:27 am
Hi Nick, Maybe some of our differences are because of the difference between the English and American language and culture. You are certainly saying much of...
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 4, 2004 2:42 pm
Steve, As I understand it, the entire point of Epictetus wants to get across to his students is that they need to know the will as the core of their being...
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Papini, Mauricio
mauriciopapini
Dec 4, 2004 3:01 pm
I see, Mauricio, that you wish to insist that empirical verification is necessary for science. That’s fine. ... Steve, there is only one way in which one...
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Papini, Mauricio
mauriciopapini
Dec 4, 2004 4:10 pm
I agree entirely with Malcolm's first paragraph (see below). I will extend it by saying that if one concentrates in a specific objective, say understand...
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Steve & Oxsana Marquis
marquis95960
Dec 4, 2004 4:37 pm
Well said, Malcolm. Don't have time to respond further. It seems we have reached an understanding (including Mauricio). I just see personal growth as a...
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garuda_breaks_the_net
garuda_break...
Dec 4, 2004 4:54 pm
Hello, I have just joined this list/group and thought I would introduce myself. I am in my mid-twenties and a post-graduate student of religion ... I was...
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Jan E Garrett
chrys1943
Dec 4, 2004 11:46 pm
Given the conversations that have followed my recent postings on the actual communitarian-liberal debate that has unfolded among political philosophers, I have...
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Nigel Glassborow
nigel7579
Dec 5, 2004 11:58 am
I would thank Jan for his guide lines. Before this debate started I had not even heard of the term Communitarian. 'Limitations on individual...
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bamford@...
reb_el
Dec 5, 2004 1:14 pm
... introduce myself .... I was raised Christian but have spent the last six years practicing in the Pure Land Buddhist tradition. At the same time though I...
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bamford@...
reb_el
Dec 5, 2004 1:15 pm
All this recent chatter about science has gotten me thinking. I was just playing Minesweep on my computer, which I tend to do from time to time (along with...
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garuda_breaks_the_net
garuda_break...
Dec 5, 2004 2:33 pm
... Thank you for the warm welcome Rick. It is nice to know there are people with a range of interests here. Shortly I will sit back and listen ... get a feel...
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Papini, Mauricio
mauriciopapini
Dec 5, 2004 3:48 pm
Very nice, Rick. I do exactly as you, but only with solitaire. I will start playing minesweep soon. Your analogy works reasonably well, but... but... but......
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Papini, Mauricio
mauriciopapini
Dec 5, 2004 4:01 pm
Anyway if anyone here has the time to tell me about their actual daily implementation of Stoic practices (probably repeating what you have told many newcomers...
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Malcolm Schosha
malcolmschosha
Dec 5, 2004 7:04 pm
The goal of Stoic philosophy is happiness, although this point easily gets a little lost in the rather rigorous advice on how to reach that goal. Recently I...
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Steve & Oxsana Marquis
marquis95960
Dec 6, 2004 6:13 pm
Mauricio writes: ______________ I don't like it when I see the word "science" applied to anything (isn't there is scientist congregation and something called...
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Steve & Oxsana Marquis
marquis95960
Dec 6, 2004 6:52 pm
Andy writes: ______________ Anyway if anyone here has the time to tell me about their actual daily implementation of Stoic practices ________________ Welcome...
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garuda_breaks_the_net
garuda_break...
Dec 6, 2004 8:48 pm
Dear Mauricio & Steve, Thank you both very much for sharing your thoughts with me. Steve, your description of Stoic practice sounded so familiar to me from my...
