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  • Cassius July 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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    Yes Dave those are several of the most key references to prolepsis in the major texts. I would say that any good interpretation of prolepsis needs to be reconcilable with them. I don't find that DeWitt's choice of words is always the best, in that he…

  • Cassius July 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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    Do our learned friends here take issue with the following discussion by DeWitt? Please be specific and explain why the below is inapposite to this thread.

    I ask because the posts discussed earlier are overwhelming me. The following comments and quotations…

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    Do our learned friends here take issue with the following discussion by DeWitt? Please be specific and explain why the below is inapposite to this thread.

    I ask because the posts discussed earlier are overwhelming me. The following comments and quotations…

  • Godfrey July 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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    I would consider prolḗpseis to just be raw, pre-interpretive mental data, like sensations are just physical data, and feelings are just emotional data, all of which are produced prior to evaluation or reflection. We digest all of this data when we…

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    I think it's very relevant to point out that Velleius pretty clearly divides the core attributes of blessedness and imlerishability from any other speculations, diving that from what the mind strives for further:



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    And later on he says:

    XVIII. With regard…

  • Bryan July 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM

    Reacted with Love to Eikadistes’s post in the thread Prolepsis of the gods.
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    I would consider prolḗpseis to just be raw, pre-interpretive mental data, like sensations are just physical data, and feelings are just emotional data, all of which are produced prior to evaluation or reflection. We digest all of this data when we…

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    "I can't find any arguments that would justify Epicurus' claims..."



    To what claims are you referring? I see no claim other than that a god is a totally happy and totally deathless being. And I see examples of some things that are happier than others,…

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    Plátō mocked the Heracliteans and their theory of flux by calling them "the fluxing ones" (Theaetetus 180c).

    The mocking epithet Epíkouros used for Hērákleitos was "Kykētḗs" which means "the Agitator."

    Epíkouros' term alludes to Hērákleitos' own…

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The Major Doctrines Of Classical Epicurean Philosophy

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