A History of Western Philosophy
little, for fear of next morning; eschew politics and love and all violently passionate activities; do not give hostages to fort ...
thrown off by bodies and travelling on until they touch soul-atoms. These films may still exist when the bodies from which they ...
founder, dogmatic, limited, and without genuine interest in anything outside individual happiness. They learnt by heart the cree ...
To break through the fast-bolted doors of Nature. Therefore his fervent energy of mind Prevailed, and he passed onward, voyaging ...
clear that the fear of punishment after death was common in fifthcentury Athens, and it is not likely that it grew less in the i ...
Each would put all things else aside and first Study to learn the nature of the world, Since 'tis our state during eternal time, ...
CHAPTER XXVIII Stoicism STOICISM, while in origin contemporaneous with Epicureanism, had a longer history and less constancy in ...
Zeno was a Phoenician, born at Citium, in Cyprus, at some. time during the latter half of the fourth century B.C. It seems proba ...
The main doctrines to which the school remained constant throughout are concerned with cosmic determinism and human freedom. Zen ...
upon himself. He may become poor, but what of it? He can still be virtuous. A tyrant may put him in prison, but he can still per ...
reflects that this event is no obstacle to his own virtue, and therefore he does not suffer deeply. Friendship, so highly prized ...
is the work of builders and mechanics." He seems, like the later Stoics, to have believed in astrology and divination. Cicero sa ...
bad man unhappy, and that the good man's happiness differs in no way from God's. On the question whether the soul survives death ...
known world, and the African coast over against Spain, where the trees were full of apes, and the villages of barbarous people i ...
Seneca (ca. 3 B.C. to A.D. 65) was a Spaniard, whose father was a cultivated man living in Rome. Seneca adopted a political care ...
then his minister. He was lame--as a result, it was said, of a cruel punishment in his days of slavery. He lived and taught at R ...
agrees with most eighteenth-century writers in regarding the period of the Antonines as a golden age. "If a man were called upon ...
"The picture of their social conditions is not so attractive as the picture of their external appearance. The impression conveye ...
Who then is a Stoic? Show me a man moulded to the pattern of the judgments that he utters, in the same way as we call a statue P ...
aspirations, and his ideal world is as superior to that of Plato as his actual world is inferior to the Athens of the fifth cent ...
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