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Stoic Piety: Love of Pleasure and Fear of Pain
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Lessons in Pious Living from Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. Love of Pleasure and Fear of Pain. A form of impiety! And he that pursues Pleasure will not refrain from committing injustice - and. The man that fears pain, moreover, fears reality. He cringes at things that "must necessarily be in this world" and would that the Universe be other than what it is. In this his impiety increases, for he hates Truth and God is Truth [see previous post. Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger.
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Stoic Piety: Injustice Is Impiety
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Lessons in Pious Living from Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. He who commits injustice commits impiety. For as the Nature of the Universe has fashioned rational beings for the sake of one another, in order to benefit each other according to what is proper but by no means to harm each other, the transgressor of Nature's will acts with manifest impiety against the most venerable of gods. Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger. Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
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Stoic Piety: For A Certain Task I Exist
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Lessons in Pious Living from Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. For A Certain Task I Exist. Everything - be it a horse or a vine - towards the particular function for which it came into being! Why are you surprised at this? The sun god himself will say, "for a certain task I exist"; and so also the rest of the gods. For what, then, do you exist? Surely, the mind does not even entertain such a thing! All things have a function, purpose, or end - what the ancient Greek philosophers called.
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Stoic Philosophy of Epictetus: The Cause Of All Our Troubles
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Stoic Philosophy of Epictetus. Saturday, 8 June 2013. The Cause Of All Our Troubles. And so remember that if you wrongly consider the things which are by nature slavish to be free and consider what belongs to others to be your own, you will be hampered, you will grieve, you will be troubled, you will cast blame upon gods and men alike. But if you consider the things which actually belong to you to be your own, and consider what belongs to another to. We have enemies other than our own selves, why we.
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Stoic Piety: The Impious Liar
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Lessons in Pious Living from Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. Falsehood, like injustice [see previous post. Is also impiety; for God is Truth, or, as Marcus Aurelius puts it: "The Nature of the Universe is the Nature of things that exist." Truth, like God, is eternal: "And the things that exist are of the same stock as all that has ever existed.". Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger. Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. Stoic Philosophy of Epictetus.
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Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger: June 2013
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Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger. A Line-by-Line Commentary on the Seneca's Moral Epistles and Essays. Wednesday, 26 June 2013. All things, my Lucilius, are another's matter; our time alone is our own affair. Nature sent us into this one fleeting and slippery possession, from which anybody who wants to can cast us out. Time is our own in the sense that we can choose to make proper use of it. Seneca argues frequently that life is not short. Sunday, 16 June 2013. Get Back To Work! Monday, 10 June 2013.
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Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger: May 2013
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Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger. A Line-by-Line Commentary on the Seneca's Moral Epistles and Essays. Sunday, 19 May 2013. Nobody To Blame But Ourselves. And if you would just pay attention to the cause of our loss of time, you would discover that the greatest part of our life slips away while we are doing evil, or doing nothing at all - practically our entire lives are wasted doing something other than what we should be doing. Than the man who lives another sixty years but lives viciously. Their ...
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Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger: Practice What You Preach
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Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger. A Line-by-Line Commentary on the Seneca's Moral Epistles and Essays. Monday, 10 June 2013. Practice What You Preach. Therefore, my Lucilius, do as you write to me that you are doing. The very etymology of the word means the love [ philo. Of wisdom [ sophia. In Greek. Wisdom is not wit, cleverness, or raw intelligence. It is correct understanding for knowing what to do. And when to do it,. When Seneca urges his friend to do as he writes, these are not casual words&#...
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Stoic Philosophy of Epictetus: About
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Stoic Philosophy of Epictetus. This blog is a line-by-line commentary on the Handbook. Of Epictetus, beginning with Book 1 of the Handbook. Each post begins with a passage from the book written in bold letters at the top of the post, followed by commentary. To read along with the posts. All passages from the Handbook. Of Epictetus are my own translations into English from the original ancient Greek. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What is not Ours. What is Truly Ours. What Truly Belongs To Us.
