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Re: Repentance and Return (teshuvah) and Guilt

gich2 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:37:27 GMT

... fact that St. Paul is quite capable of describing a conflicted soul.<<< From the Revised English Bible (1989): James 2.10 For if a man breaks just one

Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains spoilers)

Paul — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:17:50 GMT

... I think Maximus' speech to his troops at the start of the film has stoic elements. Particularly the passage where he says that what we do in life echoes in

Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains spoilers)

Michael Paris — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:24:33 GMT

Jan Garrett wrote: << On whether it is Stoic to seek vengeance, there is a passage in Seneca's De Ira (which argues against anger) where S. responds to an

Re: Guilt, Sin, Control

Vicki Russell — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:02:04 GMT

Guilt and shame are mechanisms for control, be it self control or control of others, they can be a bad or good things with respect to whether or not they are

Guilt, Sin, Control

Jan Garrett — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:43:31 GMT

St. Paul and Augustine, whom I mentioned in the previous post, had a lot of influence on Catholicism. But the discourse of guilt seems to be (almost entirely)

Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains spoilers)

Jan Garrett — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:03:49 GMT

On whether it is Stoic to seek vengeance, there is a passage in Seneca's De Ira (which argues against anger) where S. responds to an imagined interlocutor who

Re: Shame, Honor, and Guilt

Jan Garrett — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:29:45 GMT

Richard Bodeus, a leading Aristotle scholar whose work I have translated, sometimes renders aidos by reverence. The observation that it is a type of fear (of

Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains spoilers)

Michael Paris — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:59:19 GMT

... But you didn't mention any of the scenes with Marcus Aurelius talking to Maximus, asking him, "what is Rome to you?" or MA talking with his son Commodus

Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains spoilers)

Vicki Russell — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:15:20 GMT

Welcome aboard, buddy, good to see you :-) ... From: Roger Twitchell Subject: Re: [stoics] Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains

Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains spoilers)

Roger Twitchell — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:37:23 GMT

... My watching the film "many, many times" was several years ago, while I suspect I had much more 12 year old boy left in me than I do now, and as such

Re: Pathways in the mind

Kevin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:52:16 GMT

Grant, It seems to me that to in order to derive a correlation between electrochemical activity in the brain and various cognitive states one must

Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains spoilers)

Amos — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:47:36 GMT

I saw Gladiator about 10 years ago, with my son, who was age 12 then. It was a great movie for a 12 year-old-boy, and for the 12 year-old boy that most

Re: Ridley Scott's Gladiator (contains spoilers)

Roger Twitchell — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:41:25 GMT

Folks - I've watched "Gladiator" many, many times, and IMHO Richard Harris played MA in a way that IMHO strongly suggested he carefully read the Meditations as

Re: Repentance and Return (teshuvah) and Guilt

Amos — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:37:47 GMT

Jan: I think that it's correct that shame has to do with being observed or being seen. In the Old Testament, the Hebrews are observed by Yahweh: for

aidos

Kevin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:50:18 GMT

Interesting link with some nice art work. Aidos is discussed towards the end. Kevin