This paper deals with the Stoic concept of misprinted representation (φαντασία παρατυπωτική), which has received little attention compared to other concepts of Stoic epistemology and philosophy of ...mind. I aim at showing that a better understanding of this concept is important for grasping some elements of the Stoic account of mental representations that have been ignored or misunderstood in modern Stoic scholarship. First, by clarifying the status of the misprinted representation as a genuine representation, we can understand what it means (and does not mean) to say, from the Stoic point of view, that the intentional object of a representation is the external object that caused it. Second, by understanding this issue, we obtain some resources to deal with the ambiguity of the preposition ἀπό in the definition of cognitive representation. Thus, the concept of misprinted representation proves to be important for appropriately understanding the Stoic concepts of representation and cognitive representation.
Since the middle of the 19th century, animal husbandry has been industrialised and subdued to economic efficiency to an unsurpassable degree. Animals as living beings and fellow creatures have ...largely fallen by the wayside. Whereas philosophical ethics has reflected this situation critically since the 1970s, theological ethics entered the debate only with a notable delay in the 2010s and was enormously fostered by the encyclical Laudato si’ in 2015. The article discusses different theological approaches to animal ethics and links it with the origins of Christian animal ethics in the patristic era. Finally, it focuses attention on the most debated controversy in animal ethics, namely meat consumption, and argues for the postponing of this question in favour of progress in animal welfare.
This paper provides an explanatory rationale within a theoretical philosophical framework for the Philosophy Plays project as a call to public philosophy, conceived as a way of life and a form of ...communal therapy for the mind. The Philosophy Plays aim is to introduce philosophy to the general public through philosophical presentations by professional philosophers incorporating drama. Like Plato’s dialogues, the Philosophy Plays, that combine dialectic (the philosophical talk) with rhetoric (the drama) seek to engage their public audiences in a realistic and shared lived experience, rendering philosophy a practical and meaningful applied activity for all participants, conceived as a way of life.
This paper analyses theoretical and methodological aspects of the practice of etymology as it was employed by ancient Roman antiquarians to serve their research. Based on a corpus of selected ...antiquarian etymologies dating to the last two centuries of the Roman Republic, the paper firstly surveys the views on the origin and function of names implied by those etymologies and contends that those views were rooted in Stoic philosophy of language. Subsequently, the paper interrogates the method through which antiquarians reconstructed their etymologies, which mostly consisted of arbitrary manipulation of letters with little awareness of or concern for morphological boundaries, similarly, again, to Stoic etymologising. Drawing attention to the fact that, in late Republican Rome, superior (by modern standards) etymological methods were available which had been developed in other traditions, the paper speculates on the reasons why, despite that, the Stoic approach became canonical in Roman antiquarianism.
Philosophic pride Brooke, Christopher
2012., 20120408, 2012, 2012-04-08, 20120101
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Philosophic Prideis the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius'sPoliticsin 1589 to ...Jean-Jacques Rousseau'sEmilein 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher Brooke examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy.
Brooke delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love,Philosophic Pridedetails how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes.
Philosophic Prideshows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.
This paper reconstructs the Stoic theory of deixis in order to explain the importance placed by the Stoics on demonstrative pronouns and the so-called definite propositions they compose. I argue that ...these propositions are privileged by the Stoics on both ontological and epistemological grounds because of the semantic properties of their subjects. They are firstly privileged on ontological grounds because their subjects, which refer by deixis alone, bear a privileged relationship to matter, the most fundamental ontological category. In addition, they require the immediate graspability of their referent. Secondly, deictic expressions are privileged on epistemological grounds because they compose the most epistemologically fundamental propositions. Not all apparently demonstrative expressions will fulfil these requirements. I therefore also consider what constitutes a deictic expression for the Stoics – arguing that anaphora, for example, does not – and exactly how deixis secures reference, suggesting that, by contrast with what has traditionally been assumed, pointing is neither necessary nor sufficient.
A stoic critique of contemporary sport Austin, Michael W.
Journal of the philosophy of sport,
09/01/2020, 2020-09-01, 20200901, Letnik:
47, Številka:
3
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Recenzirano
In this paper, I examine two contemporary models of sport, the Martial/Commercial (MC) Model and the Aesthetic/Recreational (AR) Model, from the perspective of Stoic philosophy. Drawing on the ...writings of Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca, much is found to praise in the AR model, though, ultimately, the AR emphasis on pleasure over virtue as an outcome is criticized. Stoic philosophy proves much more critical of the MC model, finding its emphasis on winning over everything, fame, and wealth critically flawed. The paper ends with a brief sketch of a Stoic approach to sport.
In 1971, Ivan Illich wrote that school had become the world religion of a modernized proletariat. Without undoing the power of human interaction undergirding it, understanding how we learn is thus ...vital to undoing the institutional power of the West – of ‘deschooling’ society. Responding to the conflict between secular and religious schemes of education, the article investigates the ways in which the ‘atheist’ Gilles Deleuze and the ‘mystic’ Simone Weil both employed related stratagems from Stoic philosophy to critique ‘schooling’ construed as the acquisition of, rather than participation in, knowledge. Through a critical reading of the differences between Deleuze's and Weil’s ideas of education, the argument suggests that these differences run aground on the fundamental opposition to a common adversary: that normative pedagogy which trivializes the need to re-school, as well as de-school, society.
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