The judge concluded that a "wise disposition" of the case should never take its eye off two young children and a "notably forbearing husband".
The connection between performing such actions through a wise disposition and success is, Arcesilaus suggests, something that the Stoics can't deny, because they agree that opinion is the cause of error (this is the justification for premise [6] in sect. 3, above).
Future scenarios aside, Finns, sometimes known for self-deprecating pessimism, would be wise to forgo a gloomy disposition and look to neighboring Sweden, the second-largest producer – per-capita – of unicorns.
Stylelist Blogger Network member Ari Seth Cohen of Advanced Style spotted one wise woman with an incredibly sunny disposition, and a colorful sunglasses collection to match.
Moral philosophy can deepen our love for virtue, refine our understanding of the virtues, and enrich our understanding of ourselves, all of which can conduce to a firmer moral disposition and to a wiser, more careful approach to moral decisions, but it cannot and should not replace the common-life processes by which we actually make those decisions.
The conceptions of good or rational feelings (i.e., the affective dispositions and reactions of the wise person) and proto-emotions render Stoic thought on the emotions less implausible than it is sometimes taken to be.
"If anything I'm much wiser, with regard to the players I've got at my disposition and what we need to work on going into a tournament".
"If anything I think I am much wiser after the two games with regard to the players I have at my disposition and with regard to what we need to work on going into Brazil.
Instead of bouncing away such attempts at friendship and a wide array of potential courtship with a detached disposition and a dreamy stair to something floating around the decks, Billy ultimately thought wise enough to reaffirm a strong impression with his peers in the midst of the beckoning stages of the next five years of his social existence.
In a recent opinion in the D.C. Circuit, he chided his conservative brethren in a case about the regulation of raw materials used in making drugs, admonishing them, in Justice Felix Frankfurter's words, "to observe the wise limitations on our function and to confine ourselves to deciding only what is necessary to the disposition of the immediate case".
Disposition: Claim thrown out.
