Massimo!!! Where did you get the pictures of the 4 ladies representing virtues?! I'm in the process of creating some art decor at home and want to recreate the 4 virtue ladies.
My morning coffee time is at an end so I have to finish this and think about its actual substance later but right now I need to ask probably the silliest question of all:
Epictetus apparently describes "ball players" in the Discourses, but I've never actually heard of any classical Roman ball games. What on earth were these ball players playing?
The VP candidate Stockdale wasn't perhaps a perfect Stoic either. At least, his Reform party later chose infamous Buchanan as its candidate for the presidential elections.
Or would its members pick a cosmopolitan Stoic first and a racist/nativist four years later?
(already in the Perot/Stockdale days, the Reform party was protectionist and anti-migration)
After many months of following this blog, recent posts have brought me to the point of making a brief comment. Dualism is being assumed in my view. Using reasoning as the way to be in line with Nature (the good, which I agree with) is not how Nature works in all other species. Auto-pilot is at work. Thoughts, memories, perceptions,...are caloric and electrochemical. Consciousness too is inextricable from the physical.(energy-matter-information) Doing "Spiritual Exercises" also assumes a non-physical realm exists. What is "Spirit?
Monism makes the most sense to me, and I'm lost in the "New Stoicism".
Massimo!!! Where did you get the pictures of the 4 ladies representing virtues?! I'm in the process of creating some art decor at home and want to recreate the 4 virtue ladies.
My morning coffee time is at an end so I have to finish this and think about its actual substance later but right now I need to ask probably the silliest question of all:
Epictetus apparently describes "ball players" in the Discourses, but I've never actually heard of any classical Roman ball games. What on earth were these ball players playing?
The VP candidate Stockdale wasn't perhaps a perfect Stoic either. At least, his Reform party later chose infamous Buchanan as its candidate for the presidential elections.
Or would its members pick a cosmopolitan Stoic first and a racist/nativist four years later?
(already in the Perot/Stockdale days, the Reform party was protectionist and anti-migration)
Quite satisfactory to a naturally social animal capable of reason--thanks.
After many months of following this blog, recent posts have brought me to the point of making a brief comment. Dualism is being assumed in my view. Using reasoning as the way to be in line with Nature (the good, which I agree with) is not how Nature works in all other species. Auto-pilot is at work. Thoughts, memories, perceptions,...are caloric and electrochemical. Consciousness too is inextricable from the physical.(energy-matter-information) Doing "Spiritual Exercises" also assumes a non-physical realm exists. What is "Spirit?
Monism makes the most sense to me, and I'm lost in the "New Stoicism".