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Status: Baron von Andy
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Status: conservative gay hamster
Join Date: Feb 2009
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*googles stoicism*
Um, no, I don't think I am. If you're feeling in a philosophical mood, you can read my take on determinism here. *reads more* Well, I do value reason and logic, distrust emotions and believe in questioning my own motives (am I motivated by reason or emotion?), and in contemplating death. Maybe that makes me stoicish?
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Status: SAS Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
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I like the philosophy of Epictetus a lot.
I agree with it too. |
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Status: the new disease
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Mississippi
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You do have the beard for it.
...sorry, classics joke. No, I'm not a stoic. If I had to pick a school of philosophy, I'd be a peripatetic/neoplatonist eclectic.
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Status: SAS Member
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Does anyone know a good resource to learn about stoicism?
I know some basic principles but I'd like to learn more. |
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Status: the new disease
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The Discourses of Epictetus, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Letters from a Stoic by Seneca the Younger.
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Status: Baron von Andy
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Status: Resist. Unlearn. Defy.
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: In My Tree
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I wouldn't call myself a full-fledged Stoic, but I am very interested in Stoicism and try to apply much of the principles to my life. I've read Enchiridion and Meditations. Out of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, I like Marcus Aurelius the most. I have Letters from a Stoic, but I haven't read it yet. : )
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Status: SAS Member
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I like what I know about Stoicism, although I don't have a complete grasp of it yet. I only recently started finding out more about it after reading "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
Interestingly, I like some of Epicurus' ideas too. From what I understand his actual philosophy can be summed up by "everything in moderation", as opposed to what "epicurean" has come to mean in modern times. |
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Status: Authenticating
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: USA
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Something I'm presently looking into.
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"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing." ~Rabindranath Tagore "Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on." ---Sean Covey |
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