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		<title>By: Whateverman</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewshouts.com/2009/03/23/september-26th-2007-note-to-self-and-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-106</link>
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		<description>Did you know that Apathy originated as a Stoic philosophy?

The stoics are pretty cool, but they get a bad rap as they were associated with the downfall of Rome and the empire in general.  Still, apathy embodies much of how they tried to approach the problems of the world: emotionless, free from passions &amp; thus able to make rational decisions.

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in Stoic philosophy, condition of being totally free from the pathē, which roughly are the emotions and passions, notably pain, fear, desire, and pleasure. Although remote origins of the doctrine can probably be found in the Cynics (second half of the 4th century bc), it was Zeno of Citium (4th–3rd century bc) who explicitly taught that the pathē were to be extirpated entirely.


Attacks on the Stoics suggesting that they were insensitive to the human condition invoked rejoinders from the later Stoics, some of whom compromised by distinguishing between good and evil pathē. Early Stoics, however, rejected the pathē altogether, breaking with the Aristotelians, who sought a mean between them, and with the Epicureans, who proclaimed pleasure, rightly chosen, to be the only criterion by which to judge an action.

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<p>The stoics are pretty cool, but they get a bad rap as they were associated with the downfall of Rome and the empire in general.  Still, apathy embodies much of how they tried to approach the problems of the world: emotionless, free from passions &amp; thus able to make rational decisions.</p>
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in Stoic philosophy, condition of being totally free from the pathē, which roughly are the emotions and passions, notably pain, fear, desire, and pleasure. Although remote origins of the doctrine can probably be found in the Cynics (second half of the 4th century bc), it was Zeno of Citium (4th–3rd century bc) who explicitly taught that the pathē were to be extirpated entirely.</p>
<p>Attacks on the Stoics suggesting that they were insensitive to the human condition invoked rejoinders from the later Stoics, some of whom compromised by distinguishing between good and evil pathē. Early Stoics, however, rejected the pathē altogether, breaking with the Aristotelians, who sought a mean between them, and with the Epicureans, who proclaimed pleasure, rightly chosen, to be the only criterion by which to judge an action.</p>
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		<title>By: Behnam</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewshouts.com/2009/03/23/september-26th-2007-note-to-self-and-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-96</link>
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		<description>Comment for the first part: I always treasure my friends, coz I believe they are one the only things we CHOOSE in our life!</description>
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