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Die Erfindung kosmopolitaner Politik durch die Stoiker [PDF]
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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The scientific myth underlying all the branches of science in Antiquity is of course the cosmological myth. We here understand by myth a rational intellectual construction aiming at giving the clues of Nature and of Man, at thinking the universe as a ...
Françoise Toulze-Morisset
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Background: North American public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., police, firefighters, paramedics) training programmes often focus on the importance of controlling emotional reactions (i.e.
M. McElheran, Andrea M. Stelnicki
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Ratio et fabula dans les tragédies de Sénèque
To him who studies the relationships between rational knowledge and myths, Seneca appears as a paradoxical author, since he wrote philosophical works in which ratio keeps fabulae at a distance, and tragedies the themes of which are provided by the same ...
Jean-Pierre Aygon
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Valetudinarius Seneca. Sénèque le Philosophe était-il un malade imaginaire ?
Seneca wrote a philosophical work in which his own physical ailments are omnipresent. This constant concern, hardly consistent with Stoic orthodoxy that says that physical suffering has no moral value, has often been misunderstood.
Jean-Christophe Courtil
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The self-help movement has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry in the 21st Century, as bookstores are continually replenished with manuals advertising previously undiscovered secrets of achieving happiness.
Samuel Dickinson
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Stoic Virtue: A Contemporary Interpretation [PDF]
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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This article provides findings from our dual-computational/qualitative analysis of r/Stoicism, a large subreddit in which self-presenting boys and men seek Stoic philosophical advice on various life matters.
Marcus Maloney +2 more
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Several scholars align Nietzsche's philosophy with Stoicism because of their naturalist approaches to ethics and doctrines of eternal recurrence. Yet this alignment is difficult to reconcile with Nietzsche's criticisms of Stoicism's ethical ideal of ...
James A. Mollison
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Considerations in relation to off-site emergency procedures and response for nuclear accidents [PDF]
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 ...
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