Sentences with phrase «stoic concepts»

Some might suppose that John is using Platonic and Stoic concepts of the logos in an attempt to link universal and moral and religious experience with the incarnation.

The world - renowned philosopher Philo, himself a Jew, was a native of Alexandria, where he interpreted the scripture by means of the Stoic concept of Logos.

Her description of the stage of acceptance as «almost void of feelings» except for peace and tranquillity echoes the Stoic concept of apathy.

46 This leads to the realization that «the stoic concept of suffering triumphs over a Christian concept» of the divine.47

Not exact matches

Perhaps it is because the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers wanted to engage God only as a concept, and not as the God - man who lays a claim upon our lives.

Bonhoeffer speaks of different types: Aristotelian (man becomes a person by partaking of reason); Stoic («a man becomes a person by submitting to a higher obligation»); 4 Epicurean (man's life is heightened by pleasure, though it has a «defective concept of spirit»); 5 and the idealist tradition flowing from Immanuel Kant (the perceiving person is the starting point for philosophy).

Doesn't seem like there's much stoic logic in it if it only comments on half of a concept.

The religion of the South, Percy argued, is not Christian; it is Stoic, infused with concepts of honor and tradition, virtue and kinship.

The author of the Wisdom of Solomon gave the concept a different turn, not less significant for our purposes, although at first glance one is prone to dismiss him in disappointment, for he adds little to the thought of Proverbs, merely incorporating certain Stoic phraseology into his discussion.

And American guy trying to out - stoic the Japanese aside, this movie does have an interesting, if cliched, concept.

The concept of «global citizenship» or «world citizen» has been the subject of study and debate since the Stoic philosophical movement approached it in the Greece of the third century BC, in the Hellenistic period.

In her text for the exhibition's catalogue, Brito informs us that the concept of cosmopolitanism was in fact introduced by Socrates, who saw himself as «a citizen of the world», and then further refined by the Stoics who saw it as «an aesthetic engagement with cultural differences.»