Stoics and Sceptics: Four Lectures Delivered in Oxford During Hilary Term 1913 for the Common University FundClarendon Press, 1913 - 152 pages |
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Stoics and Sceptics: Four Lectures Delivered in Oxford During Hilary Term ... Edwyn Robert Bevan Affichage d'extraits - 1965 |
Stoics and Sceptics: Four Lectures Delivered in Oxford During Hilary Term ... Edwyn Robert Bevan Affichage d'extraits - 1959 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Academy action Aenesidemus Agnosticism ancient Antiochus of Ascalon Arcesilaus Arnim assertion Athens belief body Carneades century Christian Chrysippus Cicero Citium Clitomachus connexion daimōn desire Diog disciple Divine dogmatic system Epictetus evil feeling fiery ether frag give Greek Hellenic Hermotimus human ideal indifferent individual judgement kathēkonta Laert LECTURE logical math mind Nature pain Panaetius passion phantasia Philo philosopher Plato Plutarch Posidonius probably Pyrrho Pythagoreans quae quod Reason Ruling Principle Scepticism schools seems sensation sense Sext Sextus Empiricus soul Sphaerus sphere Stoa Stoic Stoic doctrine Stoicism teaching theory things Timon tradition Universe Wise Zeno Zeno's αἱ ἀλλ ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ γὰρ δὲ διὰ εἶναι εἰς ἐν ἐπὶ καθ καὶ τὰ κατὰ μὲν μετὰ μὴ οἱ ὅτι οὐ οὐκ οὖν περὶ πρὸς τὰς ταῦτα τε καὶ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ δὲ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὑπὸ ὡς
Fréquemment cités
Page 108 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 108 - Me vero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, 475 quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, accipiant, caelique vias et sidera monstrent, defectus solis varios lunaeque labores ; unde tremor terris ; qua vi maria alta tumescant, obicibus ruptis, rursusque in se ipsa résidant ; 480 quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
Page 111 - Altera divinatio est naturalis, ut ante dixi ; quae physica disputandi subtilitate referenda est ad naturam deorum, a qua, ut doctissimis sapientissimisque placuit, haustos animos et libatos habemus ; cumque omnia completa et referta sint aeterno sensu et mente divina, necesse est contagione divinorum animorum animos humanos commoveri.
Page 47 - I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Page 68 - ... of some result beyond itself — the one thing that seems to matter is whether the loved person really is helped by your action. Of course you run the risk of frustrated desire and disappointment. The Stoic sage was never frustrated and never disappointed. Gethsemane, looked at from his point of view, was a signal break-down. The Christian's Ideal Figure could never be accepted by the Stoic as an example of his typical Wise Man.
Page 107 - Sed sic, Scipio, ut avus hic tuus, ut ego qui te genui, iustitiam cole et pietatem, quae cum magna in parentibus et propinquis, tum in patria maxima est. Ea vita via est in caelum et in hunc coetum eorum qui iam vixerunt et corpore laxati illum incolunt locum quem vides" — erat autem is splendidissimo candore inter flammas circus elucens — " quem vos, ut a Grais accepistis, orbem lacteum nuncupatis.
Page 111 - Sed tribus modis censet deorum appulsu homines somniare : uno, quod praevideat animus ipse per sese, quippe qui deorum cognatione teneatur ; altero, quod plenus ae'r sit inmortalium animorum, in quibus tamquam insignitae notae veritatis appareant ; tertio, quod ipsi di cum dormientibus colloquantur.
Page 102 - ... in aqua et terra mortalium. Ab summo autem circuitu caeli ad circulum lunae aetherias animas esse astra ac stellas, eos caelestes deos non modo intellegi esse, sed etiam videri; inter lunae vero 15 gyrum et nimborum ac ventorum cacumina aerias esse animas, sed eas animo, non oculis videri et vocari heroas et lares et genios.
Page 146 - Cottam esse et pontificem: quod eo, credo, valebat, ut opiniones, quas a maioribus accepimus de dis immortalibus, sacra, caerimonias religionesque defenderem. ego vero eas defendam semper semperque defendi, nec me ex ea opinione, quam a maioribus accepi de cultu deorum immortalium, ullius umquam oratio aut docti aut indocti movebit.
Page 107 - Grais accepistis orbem lacteum nuncupatis.' ex quo omnia mihi contemplanti praeclara cetera et mirabilia videbantur. erant autem eae stellae quas numquam ex hoc loco vidimus, et eae magnitudines omnium , quas esse numquam suspicati sumus, ex quibus erat ea minima quae ultima a caelo, citima (a) terris luce lucebat aliena.