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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
Apologies if this has been posted before. I thought some people here might find this conference interesting. http://www.philosophyinassos.org/assos.htm Robin ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
