Athena

I like what you said because it includes both sexes. Our labor history is terrible and at least most women had the protection of home, while men riske...

I think we are the same cohort. I think I got whiplash looking back on all the very rapid transitions we have been through. I was already into the 195...

Bingo! However, it is the whole human value system as you keep saying. My understanding of welfare is the result of exploiting the poor for wealth. Wh...

Okay love, I started this thread because I was a traditional woman as my father and husband wanted me to be. I was the perfect 1950 woman as she was p...

Well, if there is a problem with paying women more, we need a mathematician. But my concern is not a material one as much as a value one. This is not ...

If we do perhaps experience amnesia the people who think they know us will tell us who we are and who is important to who we are and not important to ...

Our sense of self is not all in our brains, but in every cell in our body. How we feel about ourselves and our lives is in our bodies. Our judgment of...

What good talking points you presented. Have you heard about the democratic model for industry? Years ago I had the privilege of attending a seminar f...

Can we focus on gathering information so we can defend democracy with reason? What are the different forms of government? What are the benefits of eac...

A religious person could not have made a better argument for ending our liberty. However, the reasoning for democracy is based on the human potential ...

So is war a better way to resolve differences?

Have you ever had a problem with your user name for the internet and wished you could just call someone and explain the problem? You know, like in the...

Well so much for liberty. Will that utopia include drugs like people used drugs in The Brave New World to deal with their totally useless lives.

Heck no there should not be one world order. It is much better to stay with wars to determine what happens.

That is an important warning, especially for those who must work for a living. I have heard some real horror stories about how something said on the i...

Positive characteristics of females? I think males who desire to be females to do not have all the facts of being one, and considering this discussion...

That is a shame. We have so much potential but to manifest it requires education and training. I really do think it a shame to not develop our arete.

I would love to be as attractive and physically fit as I once was when I felt like an Amazon woman who could do anything that was physically challengi...

I am not sure about that. True mammals do learn from each other but I don't think that is true of all animals. I think if we were to focus on hormones...

Biologically males and females are different and that biological difference includes psychological and behavior differences. The same thing also manif...

When I realized Santa Claus was not real, I was angry with my mother for lying to me. She explained Santa Claus is real in spirit. Santa Claus is the ...

Socrates was very interested in happiness and there is much philosophical discussion of what virtues have to do with happiness. Buddhism is missing fr...

I have totally enjoyed your post and that is why I thought we could open another thread. I am still determined to find what I read that lead me to thi...

Excuse me. You do not know Athena do you. It is not a good idea to piss off any of the gods, and certainly not a good idea to piss Athena off. Now do ...

Aristotle also thought women inferior. I think most groups of people thought they were superior to all others. It seems to be a human trait. Roman law...

What is God? What is the external world? I believe the universe exists. I think I believe energy continues to flow from the center of the universe but...

How about a different thread started with the last post because the topic is different from Stoicism? I find that post requires some heavy thinking. I...

This is not an Aristotle quote but it is quick and easy and considering our own concerns about corruption and the corruption brought on by money, We m...

Did anyone watch "Hacking Your Mind"? The show is about personal data being gathered and then used to trigger a person's emotions so that the person b...

I love that question. I have made a note of it and need to search for where I picked up that information. I have a long weekend and will hopefully ans...

What is the logic of history? :nerd: Can I call in sick today and spend the rest of the day wrestling with the thoughts you stir in my head? I think o...

Hum, I am listening to different professors explain philosophy and I wonder if that is fundamentally different from reading? Part of my thinking inclu...

Stoic women. I appreciate this video. https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=female+stoics#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f56f2efc,vid:puJa6Ls1...

I really don't know that much, but I am learning. Wouldn't be wonderful to a color coded map that showed where ideas originated and traveled and perha...

How could anyone emphasize ethics more than Socrates, Plato and Aristotle? I am reminded of the Protestants who divided into several different denomin...

I love talk of Athens because I have realized I don't really learn anything unless I am working with the ideas I want to know. Like being virtuous dep...

I love Spinoza and would like to know about him. Epictetus was a Greek philosopher who lived in Rome. His thoughts are not so different from Aristotle...

Your link demands some thinking. My first thought is Aristotle didn't deal with Christians who definitely use the Bible for comfort, and how they make...

I sense a strong need to be a little too literal. Did we really believe George Washington cut down a cherry tree and when his father asked about the t...

What are the years of your high school education and what is a 2nd world small town? The date of your education is important because of the changed pu...

I am very sensitive to the importance of culture. Joseph Campbell said mythology is essential to humans and when they do not have a shared mythology t...

I think what is important to know about Stoicism is its place in the Athenian attempt to define the good life and how it is achieved. I think saying t...

Stoicism originated in Athens as part of Athens's thinking about virtues and ethics. However, your comment is supported by this explanation of Brits a...

Aristotle argued with his teacher Plato and both have strongly influenced our consciousness. Who would want to stop our intellectual growth with Socra...

Totally :heart: we are part of something bigger than ourselves. We need to spread this as religions are spread. I think we can succeed if we bring bac...

So true. We are very much shaped by our time in history. I love to think of myself as a hippy. My mother sang for USO shows and was the ideal pinup gi...

LOL, I am a registered organ donor, but for that to work, one must die in the hospital and that is not something we can always arrange. Hit me with a ...

You do know my effort in the forum would be completely useless without someone who understands what I am saying as you are understanding the thoughts....

Well yes, it is the history of democracy as it originated in Athens. The folks of Athens asked, how do the gods resolve their differences? As you know...

Democracy is rule by reason. It begins with asking, how do the gods resolve their differences and concluding they argue until there is a consensus on ...