On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote:
> Too much egg-nog? Try...
> Stoicism
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
> Stoicism is a school of philosophy commonly associated with such
> philosophers as Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus.
> Organized at Athens in the third century B.C.E. (310 BC) by Zeno of Citium
> and Chrysippus. The Stoics provided a unified account of the world that
> comprised formal logic, materialistic physics, and naturalistic ethics.
> Later Roman Stoics emphasized more exclusively the development of
> recommendations for living in harmony with a natural world over which one
> has no direct control.
So much for Coase's Theorem...
> Living according to nature or reason, they held, is living in conformity
> with the divine order of the universe. The four cardinal virtues of the
> Stoic philosophy are wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance, a
> classification derived from the teachings of Plato.
Do much for 'greed is good'.
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