Troubling stoicism:Sociocultural influences and applications to health and illness behaviour [PDF]
, 2012 In light of the ambiguity of meanings attributed to the concept of stoicism we critically explore its use as a label to explain and describe health and illness behaviour, juxtaposing the often negative portrayals of contemporary stoicism against its ...
Campbell, Paul +3 more
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Were Neanderthals Rational? A Stoic Approach
Humanities, 2018 This paper adopts the philosophical approach of Stoicism as the basis for re-examining the cognitive and ethical relationship between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
Kai Whiting +3 more
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Ordres et impératif chez les stoïciens et Apollonius Dyscole
Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 2022 Whereas Aristotle rejected outside of logic all statements but the declarative one, the Stoics deal with the imperative statement within a syntax of different “sayings” (λεκτά): the order is defined in relation to a προστακτικὸν λεκτόν or προστακτικὸν ...
Frédérique Ildefonse
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Stoicism and Frankfurtian Compatibilism
Elpis, 2018 Although the free will debate of contemporary analytic philosophy lacks almost any kind of historical perspective, some scholars (for instance Zimmerman 2000; Salles 2001, 2005) have pointed out a striking similarity between Stoic approaches to free ...
László Bernáth
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Too tough to ask for help? Stoicism and attitudes to mental health professionals in rural Australia
Rural and Remote Health, 2020 Introduction: Rural and remote Australia has long been recognised as an area with reduced help-seeking for mental health concerns and an increased suicide mortality.
Amy Kaukiainen, Kairi Kõlves
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The stability of the ways of coping (revised) questionnaire over time in parents of children with Downs-Syndrome : a research note [PDF]
, 1995 The stability of the Ways of Coping (Revised) Questionnaire over time was assessed by comparing the scores of 68 mothers and 53 fathers of school-aged children with Down's syndrome over a 3-year time interval on the five coping strategy subscales ...
HATTON, C +3 more
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Considerations in relation to off-site emergency procedures and response for nuclear accidents [PDF]
, 2017 The operation of nuclear facilities has, fortunately, not led to many accidents with off-site consequences. However, it is well-recognised that should a large release of radioactivity occur, the effects in the surrounding area and population will be ...
Arnold +59 more
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STOICISM AND WAR WOUNDS: MUCIUS SCAEVOLA, SERGIUS SILUS AND QUINTUS SERTORIUS
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2019 Soldiers sustaining battle wounds was both an historical reality as a popular literary theme in the Late Republic and the Early Empire. Battle scars were often instrumentalised as tokens of bravery on the battlefield and equated with military honours ...
Korneel Van Lommel
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Stoic Virtue: A Contemporary Interpretation [PDF]
, 2020 The Stoic understanding of virtue is often taken to be a non-starter. Many of the Stoic claims about virtue – that a virtue requires moral perfection and that all who are not fully virtuous are vicious – are thought to be completely out of step with our ...
Siscoe, Wes
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Die Erfindung kosmopolitaner Politik durch die Stoiker [PDF]
, 2010 This lecture explores the political import of Chrysippus' account of why and how one should live as a citizen of the cosmos, and it makes a case for seeing this account as the invention of political cosmopolitanism.
Brown, Eric
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