Excellent thoughts. I think we can all agree that a printed word is equivalent to an utterance and therefore meaningless in and of itself. We each have ...
What nonsense. It is perfectly fine to combine stoicism with one or such religion. The only question then is: are you only influenced by stoicism, or are you...
... I've never said that. I said we should use the ancient texts as reference points for a definition of stoicism. That's very different saying anyone who...
I agree with this: Keith Seddon: The Core Dogmas of Stoicism (1) Our rationality is a fragment of God's (one consequence of which is that we are obliged to...
«Yet the core of Stoic philosophy is found neither in logic nor in physics, but in ethics. Their historical immortality the Stoics owe to the ethical ideal...
Ther is nothing in my post about combining Stoicism with anything. It's not even part of the discussion topic. The topic is attemtping to define what...
Hi Steve, I may have understood you, but I read this to mean that you believe that stoicism is based on reason whereas religion isn't and can't be: "My point...
Epictetus, _Handbook_, Chapter 12, trans. George Long: If you intend to improve, throw away such thoughts as these: if I neglect my affairs, I shall not have...
I'm not sure that there can be such a thing, strictly speaking, as _the_ fundamental dogma of Stoicism, but Pierre Hadot thinks that the fundamental dogma of...
One thing I find quite interesting.... I've been on this List for awhile and this topic comes up now and again, of course I think that you need clear and...
Kevin, Â Eclectic is fine because we now know that no relgion/philosophy jumped out of a vacuum. Stoa is based on earlier stuff and so on and so on and so...
We (meaning members of this List from around the world) value eclecticism so strongly and passionately it is almost impossible to discuss a subject which...
I wrote: «Maybe in any given group there are purists and "eclectics" just like the Alan Watts point about "goos and prickles"?» Addendum We "need" some...
Regarding eclecticism, we know that in Hellenistic philosophy there were "Eclectic"; philosophers, who combined elements from more than one school, without...
Just an afterthought, but maybe instead of thinking of the schools as different religions, we should think of them as different genres? If you know that...
There is always the problem in any philosophical discussion of becoming dogmatic. I realize it's difficult to arrive at a one-sentence position but if it's not...
As Rabbi Hillel said, "The rest is commentary." Many thanks to all of you for your considered points-of-view. Stephen Greenfield» Actually Hillel [further]...
The stoic is a philosopher ever faithful to reason and to the rational order of the Whole. His character is noble and tranquil. His concern is his and every ...
Thank you This was very helpful. Regards, Richard ... God is not separate from the world; He is the soul of the world, and each of us contains a part of the...
I corrected the Link: http://philosophy-of-cbt.com/2013/02/20/introduction-to-stoicism-the-three-disciplines/ Regards, Richard ... God is not separate from the...
Michel Daw created a personal "mneme" from Epictetus' _Discourses_ 2.8.4. I believe that this is the translation of that passage by George Long: Such will I...
