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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (705)11/11/1996 5:53:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly   of 108807
 
>>Maybe one day the United Nations can be reformed to a sovereign entity with a legal system circumscribing behaviour between states.

Now, Maurice, would I call this a utopian fantasy best left in comic books? I just hold to the idea of limited government that informed American political thought some years ago, before the republic mutated into a centralized empire with global hegemony.

>> And fancy that, Zeno seems to have been from Cyprus, part of Turkey

Paradoxically, there were a number of free Greek states located along the coast of the Anatolian penninsula which is now Turkey. The distinctions of Ionic, Doric, Corinthian and such have something to do with this geographic dispersion of Greek civilization. There was also a large Greek colony at Syracuse on Sicily and near the toe of Italy. And there was Alexander, who managed to extend greater Greece a ways. Zeno was born in Cyprus about the time of Alexander's conquests and he later moved to Athens.

The Stoics rejected Plato's doctrine of the transcendental universal and also Aristotle's doctrine of the concrete universal. Only the individual exists. Our knowledge is knowledge of particular objects. These particulars make an impression on the soul, and knowledge is primarily knowledge of this impression. Stoics took the opposite position to Plato: Plato deprecated sense-perception while Stoics founded all knowledge on it. The Stoics were Empiricists, or Sensualists, but they maintained a rationalism that is inconsistent with that empiricism. In modern thought the physicist Ernst Mach and his particular school of interpretation of quantum theory shares this accent upon sense-perception.
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