19 days ago by Jason Cooper

Product Description Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a ...

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36 days ago by Kenny Burchard

Reflections on the second chapter entitled… “Jesus is the Glory of God – The Deity of Jesus Christ.” By Pastor Kenny Burchard email me here Is it “up” or is it “down”? Have you seen Raphael’s painting of the “school of Athens?” It is an immense painting in the Vatican in Rome. [...]

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45 days ago by Jason Cooper

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue’, for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and in ...

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103 days ago by deegeesbb

WRESTLING IS HOW OLD? REAL OLD Finding the oldest sports document in the world adds to the historical importance of sport. That alone is cause for celebration. Discovering it in an Egyptian trash pile gives it an authenticity you can’t fake. You might have doubts if it turned up in an Iowa landfill, ...

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138 days ago by admin

Our world is based on the numbers and the first was the number 1. From scratch to the bone and direction through the Greek philosophers to the development of Roman numerals and Arabic number system that feeds through the numbers we use today. Using the presentation style semi-comedian Terry Jones, t ...

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151 days ago by utprosim

I thought it might be fun today to talk a little about Sophocles and other Greek thinkers. Sophocles resonated especially with me since his Oedipus trilogy is so widely referenced. Everyone seems to bring it up when Aristotle’s Poetics is discussed because Aristotle considered it the quintessential ...

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155 days ago by ritusthoughtcatcher

Image via Wikipedia Epictetus was born into slavery about A.D. 55 in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold as a child and crippled from the beatings of his master, Epictetus was eventually freed, rising from his humble roots to establish an influential school of Stoic philosophy. Stressin ...

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156 days ago by ritusthoughtcatcher

Image via Wikipedia Epictetus was a Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia and lived in Rome until banishment when he went to Nicopolis in Greece where he lived the rest of his life. His teachings were noted down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses. Philosophy, ...

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157 days ago by ritusthoughtcatcher

Image by Eka Wangsa via Flickr After laying emphasis on focusing our attention to ‘things under our control’ & giving up struggling on ‘things outside our control’, the next thing Epictetus deals with in Enchiridion are the concepts of ‘impermanence’ & ‘ clinging‘. He says “ With regard to whatever ...

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158 days ago by ritusthoughtcatcher

Image via Wikipedia Epictetus was a stoic philosopher. His ‘ Enchiridion‘ is full of simple yet profound wisdom on ‘how to be happy. It begins with a very powerful statement : ‘Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word ...

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