... let us not blame others, but rather ourselves, that is: our idea about things ... Some things are up to us and some are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, our impulses, desires, aversions, in-short whatever is our doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or that is, whatever is not of our own doing..." --Epictetus http://www.seinan-gu.ac.jp/~mew/philos.8.ethics.stoicism.html

... done, from a philosopher's perspective? C3 Ironically I would use some stoicism sprinkled with the secular humanist psychology called "REBT" The idea is that if you get a handle on ... and rationally plan your reform or escape. http://www.seinan-gu.ac.jp/~mew/philos.8.ethics.stoicism.html Cognitive therapy or cognitive behavior therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, ...

... exactly is this done, from a philosopher's perspective? C3 Ironically I would use some stoicism sprinkled with the secular humanist psychology called "REBT" The idea is that if you get a handle on... better and rationally plan your reform or escape. http://www.seinan-gu.ac.jp/~mew/philos.8.ethics.stoicism.html Cognitive therapy or cognitive behavior therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety disorders,...

...gated communities just as wall as in broken down trailers in the woods. I try to keep it real simple... their money is all green. You can do what you want but please keep it on alt.racist. I try to follow Stoicism. I do not give anyone else the power to elicit an emotional response in me with magic words like "nigger", "honkey", or whatever. If you wish to remain vulnerable to what others say in this way, I dont have a...

... communities just as wall as in broken down trailers in the woods. I try to keep it real simple... their money is all green. You can do what you want but please keep it on alt.racist. I try to follow Stoicism. I do not give anyone else the power to elicit an emotional response in me with magic words like "nigger", "honkey", or whatever. If you wish to remain vulnerable to what others say in this way, I dont have a problem with it...

... Brown wrote: Gary Childress wrote: What do others think? Is morality necessarily based upon religion? "Stoic Warriors" by Nancy Sherman gives a pretty good rundown on how Stoicism evolved... outside of religion. Their position is that morality is based on sanity, not religion. Exactly. Morality is a mixture of cultural infuence and cause and effect. Any person should have morality completely independent of...

..., you havta leave the stonework in place to stand there and bear witness to the impotence of the god it represented. This is not 'absolute righeousness' at all ZerkonX. Its dispassionate analysis based on the principles of Stoicism and the understanding of the way the alpha male mind thinks in light of the neurology and latest work on brain chemistry. Physical harm to individuals is the last thing you want to do to win the war on ...

... that Wehrmacht belt buckle read "Got Mit Uns" (God is with us). In that case, I could assert that religion leads to immorality and evil. "Stoic Warriors" by Nancy Sherman gives a pretty good rundown on how Stoicism evolved... outside of religion. Their position is that morality is based on sanity, not religion. Can only a nation under God be a good nation? no, but there are some few obscure examples where the prime deity ...

...is opposed to positive law, which is human-made, conditioned by history, and subject to continuous change. The concept of natural law originated with the Greeks and received its most important formulation in Stoicism . The Stoics believed that the fundamental moral principles that underlie all the legal systems of different nations were reducible to the dictates of natural law. This idea became particularly important in Roman legal theory,...

... opposed to positive law, which is human-made, conditioned by history, and subject to continuous change. The concept of natural law originated with the Greeks and received its most important formulation in Stoicism . The Stoics believed that the fundamental moral principles that underlie all the legal systems of different nations were reducible to the dictates of natural law. This idea became particularly important in Roman ...