Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings
Cynthia KingSözler ve Alıntılar
Kadınlara Felsefe Eğitimi Verilmesi Üzerine Erkekleri İkna Argümanı
It stands her in good stead to have learned to think nobly and to consider death not an evil and life not a good, and at the same time it stands her in good stead not to turn pain aside and not to pursue lack of pain above all. Therefore it is likely that this woman would be both self-motivated and persevering, the kind of woman to nurse at her own breast the children whom she brings forth, to serve her hus-band with her own hands, and to do without hesitation tasks which some consider appropriate for slaves.
Sayfa 29
Kadınlar ve Felsefe Eğitimi
In addition, a desire for virtue and an affinity for it belong by nature not only to men but also to women: no less than men are they disposed by nature to be pleased by noble and just deeds and to censure things opposite these.
Sayfa 28
Eurupides
"The eagle can fly through all the air, and a noble man has all the earth as his fatherland."*
*This is Euripides Fragment 1047 in the second edition of tbe fragments of writers of Greek tragedy (Tragicomm Graecomm Fragmenta, abbreviated TGF) collected by August Nauck (Leipzig: Teubner, 1889).
Sayfa 44
Kadınlar ve Felsefe Eğitimi
It is also appropriate for her (female philosopher) not to bow down to anyone, be he well-born, powerful, wealthy, or even, by Zeus, a tyrant. (...) The doc-trine of the philosophers encourages a woman to be happy and to rely on herself.
Sayfa 29
Meal'de Yazıyor Kardeşim
A person who has not studied letters, music, or sports does not say that he knows them. Nor does he pretend to possess these skills if he is unable to name also the teacher to whom he went. So why, by the gods, do we all declare that we have virtue? A human being has no claim by nature to any of those other skills, and no one comes into life with a natural ability for them.
Sayfa 27
...philosophy is nothing but the practice of noble behavior.
Sayfa 33
Kral ve Felsefe
I myself think that a good king is from the start a philosopher out of necessity, and that a philosopher is from the start also a kingly person.
Sayfa 46