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People Over 65 Should Be Prohibited From Having Major Medical Treatment Term Paper
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Subject:Health
Topic:Open Heart Surgery
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Belief System: Epicurean vs. Stoic
People over 65 should be prohibited from having major medical treatment such as open - heart surgery. Health care efforts would be better directed toward preventative care for children. From this standpoint this work intends to examine the belief of the Stoic and of the Epicurean and finally to form a personal opinion and state the same.
Stoicism is a term derived from the Greek "stoa" which refers to the columns or "colonnade" such as one sees in the replicas of Grecian architecture or on the front of colonial style homes. Zeno, a teacher taught his followers in the "stoa poikile" in Athens and the name stoics was applied to this group. Followers were inclusive of Marcus Aureoles, Seneca and Epictetus.
Stoic Belief
The thinking or logic of the "Stoic" was the same as that of Aristotle but with a different twist adding that:
"The mind is a blank slate, upon which impressions are inscribed.'
Stoic physics claims that "nothing incorporeal exists." This materialistic view is cohesive with the doctrine of the stoic. Plato understood the substance contained within the knowledge in thought and ascribed value to that knowledge. However, the stoic places value in sensations experienced on a physical level stated that reality is matter.
Believing that "All things, even the soul, and that even God himself, are only material and nothing more." The stoics basis for this belief was upon the following two considerations:
* It is demanded by the unity of the world, the world is one and must obey the principle of one - monism.
* God and the world are pair acting and reacting upon one another
The fire logos is the primordial type of being from which all things are composed was adopted from Heraclitus by the Stoics who stated that the primal fire is God. So as is God the primordial fire then the human soul is too fire. God is to the world as the soul is to the body of a human. The soul comes from the divine fire permeating and penetrating the body completely and according to the Stoic belief "the soul-fire permeates the whole body, and God, the primordial fire, permeates the entire world. "
Materialism set aside Stoics hold to the belief that God to be "absolute reason."
Following the thinking that the divine fire is an element based in rationality of thinking. The Stoic belief is that all things…
Sample Source(s) Used
Bibliography:
"Stoic Logic" Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/stoicism.htm#Stoic%20Logic
The Handbook of Epictetus. Translated by Nicholas White. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1983.
Walton, Stephen (1997) THE MANUAL: "How to Control Everything You Can" a modern rendering of the Enchiridion of Epictetus [Online] available at:
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