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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 Marcus Aurelius: Who Was Marcus Aurelius?
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Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. Life Lessons Gleaned from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Who Was Marcus Aurelius? What Are the Meditations? Who Was Marcus Aurelius? Marcus Aurelius was a Roman who lived between 121 to 180, and was the emperor the Roman Empire from 161 until his death. He wrote his private Meditations. Essentially a collection of moral reminders and exhortations to himself, while on military campaign. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My Fellow Man and I. Stoic Philosophy of Epictetus.
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Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius: Priorities
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Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. Life Lessons Gleaned from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Who Was Marcus Aurelius? What Are the Meditations? Monday, 1 July 2013. But as one already dying, disdain the flesh: it is gore, a little bone, and a wreathed pile of sinews, veins, and arteries. Observe the breath, too, what sort of thing it is: mere wind. And never the same wind at that, but every moment belched out and gulped down again. Then, thirdly, there is the Ruling Faculty. Amount of interest in t...
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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 Marcus Aurelius: May 2013
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Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. Life Lessons Gleaned from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Who Was Marcus Aurelius? What Are the Meditations? Thursday, 23 May 2013. The Beautiful And The Ugly. But I, having understood the nature of the Good, that it is beautiful, and the nature of the Evil, that it is ugly. Thursday, 16 May 2013. All these things have befallen them because of their ignorance concerning what good things are and what evil things are. Be - hurt by the meddler. Another person's V...
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Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius: Do Not Become A Puppet On A String
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Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. Life Lessons Gleaned from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Who Was Marcus Aurelius? What Are the Meditations? Tuesday, 10 September 2013. Do Not Become A Puppet On A String. No longer allow this thing that I am be pulled about by an unsocial impulse like a puppet on a string. Labels: Freedom and Slavery. My Fellow Man and I. Stoic Philosophy of Epictetus. Stoic Philosophy of Seneca the Younger. Bearing Ones Lot With Grace. Do Not Become A Puppet On A String.
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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 ...
