[Buddha-l] Is this guy an, er, budding bodhisattva of IT?

[jkirk]

Thanks for the account------I love these ancients but never find the time to get down to reading them.  Best thing about this period was they had no WMD......even if war broke out it was mostly soldiers (who made fighting into an art and enjoyed it, one senses) who got slaughtered. Civilians got out of the way and then moved back when things were quiet again. Wasn't scorched earth and carpet-destruction unknown in those days?


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James A. Stroble 
  To: Buddhist discussion forum 
  Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 1:29 AM
  Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Is this guy an, er, budding bodhisattva of IT?


  On Thursday 26 April 2007 13:52, jkirk wrote:

  > Thanks James! I will see what I can do with it.

  > Yes, Linux did come up on Buddha-L, like last year?

  > Meanwhile, who was Stilpo? ( The person in Zeno's quotation you use.)

  > Joanna

  > =======================

  Joanna, 

  Stilpo was a Megarian, a student of Euclides (not that Euclides), who in turn was a teacher of Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school. Crates, as far as I can tell, was a Cynic philosopher of Stilpo's circle that I guess was trying to recruit Zeno away from Stilpo. All this comes, of course, from Diogenes Laertius, the scandal sheet of late classical philosophy, so how reliable this is as history is an open question. 

  Better to look to Diogenes' treatment of Pyrrho to see if we can see evidence of Buddhist influence in Skepticsm? 

  * * * * * * * * * ; ~ ) J a m e s ( A n d y ) S t r o b l e H o n o l u l u , H I 

  h t t p : / / w w w 2 . h a w a i i . e d u / ~ s t r o b l e / 

  The right way to seize a philosopher. Crates, is by the ears: persuade me then and drag me off by them; but if you use violence, my body will be with you, but my mind with Stilpo." Zeno of Citium, Diogenes Laertius, VII:24



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