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Amos wrote elsewhere: "So in the future I will talk about becoming wiser or becoming more aware or becoming more rational." These all sound good to me, and are...
1 Jun 23, 2007
4:22 pm

Grant Sterling
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Currently in the news there's quite a lot of investigation into slavery, from small children to older adults, working the pottery kilns of China. Really ugly...
36 Jun 23, 2007
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Amos
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I think this review I wrote of a study of the Roman lawyer Ulpian is relevant to the claims recently introduced into the Forum that Stoicism somehow influenced...
2 Jun 23, 2007
11:46 am

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I just found this article, it was pretty good: http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/reply1.html It's a reply to this article which I gave up reading pretty quickly:...
2 Jun 20, 2007
7:52 pm

Robin Turner
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This is a little off-topic but I thought people might enjoy it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8wXl3rKx4 Some of what he said reminds me of the distinction...
1 Jun 19, 2007
1:24 pm

Robin Turner
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Hello, I have recently discovered the excellent AudioStoa site, whichcurrently offers 21 digital lectures: http://audiostoa.blogspot.com/...
1 Jun 18, 2007
8:44 am

Sophia Shapira
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What are your Beliefs religion and other wist,will you be willing to accept and Cherished the beliefs of others no matter how odd they are? Free to think on...
10 Jun 17, 2007
6:14 pm

Robin Turner
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http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/doubtful_descent.htm...
22 Jun 13, 2007
10:06 pm

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LET’S HAVE IT OUT: STOICISM AND ATHEISM [formerly Claims to Certainty] Dear all, I am trying to catch up to a practical starting point of this discussion and...
26 Jun 8, 2007
6:39 pm

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... Stirring thoughts, but personally when I have a fever, I find it hard to use even the basic p=>q kind of reasoning, let alone make my reason conformable to...
5 Jun 8, 2007
3:14 pm

Robin Turner
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Apologies if this has been posted before. I thought some people here might find this conference interesting. http://www.philosophyinassos.org/assos.htm Robin ...
1 Jun 6, 2007
2:22 pm

Robin Turner
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A Filosofia Estóica O Estoicismo, o sistema filosófico em que Marco acreditava, foi, na sua origem, um produto do pensamento do Médio Oriente. Tinha sido...
1 Jun 4, 2007
2:10 pm

Breno Bastos
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In reading some the secondary literature on stoicism, there seems to be an on-going debate as to exactly how to define human nature and its telos. Proponents...
2 Jun 4, 2007
11:59 am

Malcolm Schosha
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Something Steve mentioned a few days ago caught my eye and I thought it deserved its own thread. Now Amos has asked about it and this has reminded me. I think...
28 Jun 2, 2007
8:13 pm

Matt Moran
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I have been studying stoicism seriously for about a year now and have found it to be an interesting, academic persuit. I have come to the point where I think I...
2 May 31, 2007
5:12 pm

Steve
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http://www.gfisher.org/chapter_1.htm 48. Bouché-Leclercq continues: "The Stoics valiantly accepted the consequences of their own principles. They used them to...
1 May 30, 2007
3:40 pm

Malcolm Schosha
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Are there any other members of the forum from Melbourne? If so, and you would like to meet for a chat some time, please contact me off-list at ...
1 May 29, 2007
10:24 pm

Paul
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Hello, I've read this Epictetus quote on Thinkxist.com: "In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose." Does anybody know where to find...
2 May 29, 2007
6:15 pm

Rick Harrison
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I was just reading in Long & Sedley's "The Hellenistic Philosophers" the commentary in section 46 (God, Fire, Cosmic Cycle), about the end and beginning of the...
62 May 28, 2007
2:56 pm

Daniel Strain
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Tad Brennan's book The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate, published by Oxford U. Press, has just come out in paperback. It cost me $24.75 Barnes and Noble...
4 May 26, 2007
11:53 am

Daniel Strain
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Here, partially in answer to Keith's post, is a point-by-point comparison of Stoicism and Epicureanism, which I think supports my claim that they are more...
11 May 25, 2007
9:05 pm

Malcolm Schosha
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This is pretty off-topic, but I thought it might have some tangential relevance to recent discussions about atheism/agnosticism and Stoic/Epicurean...
1 May 25, 2007
1:00 am

Robin Turner
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Hi all, I have made a flowchart of the Stoic model of perception, thought, choice, and action. I'd very much appreciate input from the folks here, to see if...
12 May 24, 2007
11:07 pm

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I was wondering whether the "Do It Yourself" punk ethics was a genuinely stoic attitude and who are the Stoics of today, could we single out a certain life...
4 May 24, 2007
10:09 pm

Robin Turner
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I normally post through the Yahoo group webpage for the forum. On the left is a menu of options. One of them reads, "Photos". For a moment I couldn't...
3 May 23, 2007
5:41 pm

Chris Weimer
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I don't think that Stoicism is possible in conjunction with atheism without mangling either or both beyond recognition. It's not realistic to remove Stoic...
20 May 23, 2007
4:57 pm

Malcolm Schosha
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Many philosophical schools from ancient times to the present have held a view something like this: key words have just one meaning; they refer to just one...
6 May 22, 2007
7:03 pm

Daniel Strain
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If someone has time, please clarify the following: Virtue (moral excellence) is the highest good and the only path to a smooth flow in life. How does virtue...
5 May 20, 2007
11:14 am

Steve
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Surely all this debate about what constitutes an atheist is due largely to the fact that negation in English is ambiguous. If we say "Sally doesn't like Harry"...
2 May 19, 2007
2:51 pm

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Hello everyone, I have recently taken the statue of our founder and tried to bring it to life by digitally painting over it and blending in some things. Please...
2 May 19, 2007
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Keith Seddon
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