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  • "Living for Pleasure" Book Study Group - Starting April 30, 2023 - Via Zoom

    • Kalosyni
    • May 20, 2023 at 9:56 AM

    "Living for Pleasure" book review continues tomorrow (Sunday night) at 8:30 pm ET -- we will cover chapters 13 - 16:

    13. Ambition, Work, and Success

    14. Greed for Life

    15. Misfortune and Resilience

    16. Of Sex, Love, and Harmless Pleasure

    This Zoom group is open to all forum members -- and open even if you haven't attended the previous weeks -- just let us know here in this thread if you are interested, and then we can get the further meeting info to you in a private forum message.

  • Pleasure vs pain - example and thoughts!

    • Kalosyni
    • May 20, 2023 at 8:58 AM
    Quote from ThinkingCat

    Anyway my colleague is willing to do cocaine and will go through the come down afterwards because he argue’s that the pleasure outweighs the pain. Of course at some point, he might become addicted to cocaine so the pain factor would kick in then. But he argues that he doesn’t have an addictive personality type and only does cocaine on special occasions. It could be argued in this scenario that he is being Epicurean?! Thoughts!

    Perhaps the special occasions are not feeling special enough for your colleague...and that he is already addicted to that one way of making things more special. Also, I would guess that there must be something missing for him and that is why he does it...and the thing which is missing (a basic human need) is the sense of friendship and enjoyment that comes from being with people whom he loves and who love him.

    Another issue: there is most likely an inner sense of "dis-ease" because he cannot be entirely sure that he won't become addicted in the future (but I would say he is already addicted now).

  • Video: 5 Ways to Improve Your Breathing with James Nestor

    • Kalosyni
    • May 19, 2023 at 9:15 AM

    This is a very interesting video from a health perspective - lots of good advice for increasing the health of the body!

    5 Ways to Improve Your Breathing:

  • Social feelings/actions to not-friends(or strangers, animals) (Philantropy /compassion /sympathy / kindness / charity /)

    • Kalosyni
    • May 17, 2023 at 10:43 AM
    Quote from Matteng

    Do you know how the Epicuean attitude is for a general Philantropy/compassion /sympathy or let´s say "social feelings"

    Principal Doctrine 5:

    "It is not possible to live joyously without also living wisely and beautifully and rightly, nor to live wisely and beautifully and rightly without living joyously; and whoever lacks this cannot live joyously."

    My own thoughts...Everything is evaluated on a case-by-case situation. When "virtuous" actions become separate from the reasons for choosing those actions, then they are elevated to an abstraction which can later cause problems. Since there is no way to eliminate all the suffering in the world, then it is wise to choose a kind of equilibrium with regard to helping others who are asking for or needing some help, such as helping those in our immediate community or location with whom we cross paths. Yet in some situations there is nothing but our own feelings to attend to. We can only choose what seems best according to the results that we imagine will come out from our actions or non-actions.

  • Training book/framework for new Epicureans

    • Kalosyni
    • May 17, 2023 at 10:22 AM
    Quote from Matteng

    Coming from the Stoic camp, I tried to practice this philosophy and searched for exercises and have found this:

    "A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control―52 Week-by-Week Lessons "


    Is there something similar there for Epicurean Philosophy ?

    I noticed the Stoic book title says"...in a World Out of Your Control" -- and that is a very key difference -- In Epicureanism we see that there are things under our control and some things which aren't. And we need to employ wisdom to be clear about what is and isn't under our control, and considering our choices when we take action: What will happen if I do this, and what will happen if I don't do this. Okay, that can be Week 1 of the 52 week by week lessons ;) Perhaps some of us here ( Cassius, Don, Joshua, Godfrey) can collaborate on writing it.

  • Paper: Comparisons of Six English Translations of Lucretius De Rerum Natura

    • Kalosyni
    • May 17, 2023 at 9:32 AM

    This seemed to shed some light on the subjectivity of translation, as it show some sections of word for word comparisons.

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    3.1.3. Verbs and nouns – treated differently

    01_latin_order 02_latin_tokens 03_eng_direct_tokens 1656_en 1743_en 1872_en 1886_en 1916_en 1936_en
    81 ferae a wild beast, wild animal savage savage untamed wild wild wild
    82 pecudes cattle bruits beasts herds herds herds beasts
    83 persultant to leap about, range through jump frisk bound bound leap bound
    84 pabula fodder, pasturage, grass meads fields pastures pastures fields pastures
    85 laeta joyful, cheerful, glad, flowry cheerful glad glad happy fat
  • Paper: Comparisons of Six English Translations of Lucretius De Rerum Natura

    • Kalosyni
    • May 17, 2023 at 8:54 AM

    I just found this very detailed paper:

    Comparison of Six English translations of Lucretius “De rerum natura” – Digital Humanities Project Course

  • "Living for Pleasure" Book group - Chapter Highlights

    • Kalosyni
    • May 15, 2023 at 10:18 AM

    Thank you to all who attended last night's meeting.

    Revisiting the meeting...I only created one "generic" slide which listed the chapter numbers and titles, then for each chapter I read some excerpts which captured some of the highlights of each chapter.

    For me the group's discussion about social media stuck in my mind (as part of Chapter 12) - and we went around the circle and briefly talked about our own experiences with Facebook or other social media.

    These four chapters covered a lot so the evening's discussion jumped around quite a bit.

  • Welcome Thinking Cat!

    • Kalosyni
    • May 13, 2023 at 5:54 PM

    ThinkingCat -- Welcome to the forum -- Your recent post in another thread will count toward your completion of registration (as explained in this thread above) -- and just for reference I'm posting the link to your question here.

    And, if you happen to have anything to share to further introduce yourself such as how you became interested in Epicureanism, you are welcome to post it here in this thread, thanks. :)

  • Lucretius Book Study Group (SASA)

    • Kalosyni
    • May 13, 2023 at 8:23 AM
    Quote from Godfrey

    It does sound like it would have a lot of overlap with the podcast and the forum.

    I just read the description on that site which says:

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    About the Event

    We will read the great didactic epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) in which the ancient Roman poet Lucretius explains the key ideas of Epicureanism, from the construction of the universe out of atoms and void to the evolution of human society and the best way of living so as to avoid pain and maximize pleasure. Along with

    discussing the poem's provocative ideas, we will also consider their revolutionary impact on early modern science, philosophy, and art when a single manuscript of this long-lost poem was miraculously rediscovered in the fifteenth century. Participants will gain an appreciation for one of the most beautiful works of Latin literature; an understanding of the philosophy of Epicurus and its impact on the development of modern science and philosophy; and a chance to think through profound issues, like how we can know about the world, how we can live a flourishing life, and what happens to us when we die, by engaging with a provocative set of philosophical arguments in a group.

     

    Here is when it runs:

    Tuesdays, 1pm ET - Starting June 13th, for 5 weeks, on Zoom.

    I am thinking I may attend! :)

  • "Living for Pleasure" Book Study Group - Starting April 30, 2023 - Via Zoom

    • Kalosyni
    • May 10, 2023 at 10:24 AM

    We will keep an open group for the "Living for Pleasure" book review and discussion via Zoom, for all forum members - so you can still drop into to the next meeting even if you haven't yet attended. Just let us know if you are interested here in this thread.

    This next Sunday at 8:30pm ET - May 14th we will be covering chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12, and I will be presenting a few of the highlights.

  • PD01 - Gratitude and Weakness (Especially In Relation to the Gods)

    • Kalosyni
    • May 9, 2023 at 9:35 AM
    Quote from Don

    one's eye should always be on the pleasant life lived.

    And you could think of gratitude as a kind of awareness and recognition that you are living pleasantly and pleasurable - therefore gratitude is always a necessary ellement, as Nate pointed out in the very first post:

    Quote from Nate

    In nearly every other extant document, "gratitude" (expressed using forms of kharis) is encouraged as an indispensable moral practice:

    Although I wouldn't call it a "moral" practice, but rather a wise practice :saint:

  • The Ethics of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines by Jean-Marie Guyau. Edited by Testa and Ansell-Pearson, translated by Testa

    • Kalosyni
    • May 8, 2023 at 8:28 AM
    Quote from Pacatus

    * I do not see hedone/aponia/ataraxia as instrumental virtues aiming at eudaimonia – as if that were some other value-in-itself. I rather see a eudaimonic life as constitutive of the most pleasurable/pleasant life I can put together. Eudaimonia is not separable from hedone.

    Some thoughts perculating in response. The sensations of hedone/aponia/ataraxia result due to choices, and our choices are limited by the options we can imagine, and those choices are limited by the options which are realistically available to us. My niece has five children that she home-schools, and I seriously doubt that tranquility and serenity will be available to her (except in very brief moments) till they grow up and move out of the house (three boys and two girls). And yet, since hedone is additive (not subtractive) then I say that hedone (both of mind and of body) could be a direct path to happiness for her. If she thinks she needs aponia and ataraxia to be happy then she will wait a long time.

  • "Living for Pleasure" Book group - Chapter Highlights

    • Kalosyni
    • May 8, 2023 at 7:52 AM

    Here are some of the slides that I presented in last night's Zoom book review of Emily Austin's "Living for Pleasure". (I present a few highlights of chapters 5, 6, and 7. And Cassius presented on chapter 8.)

  • VS52 - Happiness or Blessedness?

    • Kalosyni
    • May 6, 2023 at 10:57 AM

    I found this at a translation website, but the last two letters of the word look different than in the above ancient Greek (in post 1 above)

    μακαρισμός ὁ, pronouncing happy, blessing, Pl. R. 591d, Arist. Rh. 1367b33, Andronic. Pass. p. 570 M., Plu. 2.471c ; giving praise or thanks, Epicur. Sent.Vat. 52, Phld. D. 3 Fr. 86a.

    Source:

    Eulexis-web
    Eulexis-web (version en ligne du logiciel Eulexis) permet de lemmatiser ou fléchir un texte en grec ancien et de rechercher dans des dictionnaires de grec…
    outils.biblissima.fr

    This was the original translation site and it gave me four options and I just chose the first site which I posted link above.

    Ancient Greek Dictionary Online Translation LEXILOGOS
    www.lexilogos.com
  • VS52 - Happiness or Blessedness?

    • Kalosyni
    • May 6, 2023 at 10:05 AM

    Don - can you help out with translation of this one (my eyes go cross-eyed when I look at Greek letters). This translation is from Peter Saint Andre. (Do we already have this someplace else?)

    52. Friendship dances around the world, announcing to each of us that we must awaken to happiness. ἡ φιλία περιχορεύει τὴν οἰκουμένην κηρύττουσα δὴ πᾶσιν ἡμῖν ἐγείρεσθαι ἐπὶ τὸν μακαρισμόν.

    Should the last word be translated as "blessedness"?

  • The Ethics of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines by Jean-Marie Guyau. Edited by Testa and Ansell-Pearson, translated by Testa

    • Kalosyni
    • May 4, 2023 at 8:51 AM
    Quote from Cassius

    We have to start with an understanding of what the normal healthy living thing does with its time so that we can understand what is presumed to be the result when all pain is eliminated.

    41. One must laugh and seek wisdom and tend to one's home life and use one's other goods, and always recount the pronouncements of true philosophy. γελᾶν ἅμα δεῖ καὶ φιλοσοφεῖν καὶ οἰκονομεῖν καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς οἰκειώμασι χρῆσθαι καὶ μηδαμῇ λήγειν τὰς ἐκ τῆς ὀρθῆς φιλοσοφίας φωνὰς ἀφιέντας.

    (source)

    This is clear and simple and I'm thinking that one interpretation of "use one's other goods" is that these are the "goods" of friendship and self-sufficiency, etc.

    It would be good to clearly define "happiness" and the path to it, as that would make things less ambiguous.

  • "Living for Pleasure" Book Study Group - Starting April 30, 2023 - Via Zoom

    • Kalosyni
    • May 2, 2023 at 11:10 AM

    jdarraugh -- Thanks for letting us know, and looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting. :)

  • Welcome Creative Air!

    • Kalosyni
    • May 2, 2023 at 7:42 AM

    Creative Air Welcome to the forum! And thanks for telling us about your background!

    Quote from Creative Air

    Discovering this philosophy has changed my life for the better

    Yes! And it has for me too!

    Quote from Creative Air

    I'm grateful for what all of you do here and the knowledge you impart to continue the Epicurean tradition. Thanks!

    Thanks and you're welcome...and of course we do it for the pleasure it brings! ^^

  • "Living for Pleasure" Book Study Group - Starting April 30, 2023 - Via Zoom

    • Kalosyni
    • May 1, 2023 at 8:37 PM

    I want to thank all who showed up last night to our first book review meeting for Emily Austin's "Living for Pleasure". We had a total of seven attendees.

    The group is still open, for any forum members who would like to join the group, just let us know here if you are interested...next meeting is Sunday, May 7th at 8:30 pm Eastern Time.

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