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Re: False Impressions ae not 'Bad' [was:Response to Steve's critique

Steve Marquis — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:17:32 GMT

Jan writes: ______________ I didn't say that the impressions that should not be accepted are literally bad (on the Stoic perspective). I said that they

Re: Stoicism and Sparta

Vicki Russell — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:04:27 GMT

The Spartans made an impression on Socrates who was lifted up as a hero worthy of emulation by Epictetus. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says that he

Stoicism and Sparta

Stoic Stoic — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:23:53 GMT

There's an interesting show on Sparta on this week's In Our Time on the BBC - the link is below. They discuss the rigorous and austere Spartan training, and it

Response to Steve's critique of my response to Steve's critique

jan.garrett@... — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:15:33 GMT

... RESPONSE. I didn't say that the impressions that should not be accepted are literally bad (on the Stoic perspective). I said that they are metaphorically

Re: Thoreau the Stoic?

Michel Daw — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:25:45 GMT

This simplicity of life approach would be equally assigned to Epicureanism. The idea of just enough, and no more. ... -- Cheers, Michel

Re: Was Paul a Jew?

Kent Backman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:12:52 GMT

... Karlton> According the earliest "christian" sources, the ebionites, an essene sect, Paul was not a jew. He was a pagan, born of pagan parents in Tarsus and

Thoreau the Stoic?

BrianE — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11:53 GMT

Some of the writings of Thoreau are basically Stoic in nature. " However mean your life is, meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it names." "Laying up

Re: Was Paul a Jew?

Grant Sterling — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:47:08 GMT

... ***** The whole reason? Really? Did he confide this to you personally, or have you found his secret diaries? It's certainly not the only reason he

Re: Was Paul a Jew?

stoic_thorn_bearer — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:07:22 GMT

Of course there were Gentile converts to Judaism, I don't think anyone is denying that. And of course New Testament Christianity is not Old Testament Judaism.

Re: Was Paul a Jew?

Vicki Russell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:14:59 GMT

Hello Curt, If there were no theological differences, there would be no sects. You also seem to be vigorously engaged in vanquishing yet another pesky

Belief in God [was: Does the use of Logic and Reason still support t

gich2 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:05:38 GMT

Keith wrote: "For myself, I think it is logical to believe in God because I think (as many here will be all too familiar) that the Cosmological Argument for

Re: Was Paul a Jew?

Curt Steinmetz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:12:39 GMT

... This glosses over the fact that Jews were already involved in proselytizing to the Gentiles all over the Roman Empire (and even outside the Roman Empire

Re: The Hegemonikon and the Prohairesis

Stoic Stoic — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:42 GMT

thanks Steve and Jan best Jules ... From: Jan Garrett Subject: [stoics] The Hegemonikon and the Prohairesis To: "Stoics"

Re: The key point in my response to Steve's critique

Steve Marquis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:41:04 GMT

Jan writes: ________________ But impressions that should not be accepted are, METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING, bad, like rotten food that should not be consumed.

The key point in my response to Steve's critique

Jan Garrett — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:19:53 GMT

This is the key point in my response to Steve's critique: There is a difference between the Stoic's understanding of what he is doing and what I'll call the