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Listen to the latest Lucretius Today Podcast! Episode 225 is now available. Cicero Argues That A Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar to Pleasure.
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Bryan
April 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM Reacted with to Don’s post in the thread Updated TimeTable of the Epicurean World.Reaction (Post)http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?do…0%3Achapter%3D1
Next came Polyaenus,37 son of Athenodorus, a citizen of Lampsacus, a just and kindly man, as Philodemus and his pupils affirm. Next came Epicurus's successor Hermarchus, son of Agemortus, a… -
Bryan
April 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM Reacted with to Joshua’s post in the thread Updated TimeTable of the Epicurean World.Reaction (Post) -
Kalosyni
April 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM Replied to the thread Purpose of this Subforum - Explaining How Illusions Are Corrected By The Senses Themselves.Post -
Bryan
April 25, 2024 at 2:41 PM Reacted with to Cassius’s post in the thread Episodes Of Lucretius Today Available At Archive.org.Reaction (Post)Today we updated Archive.org so that all episodes up through the current episode 225 are now available.
https://archive.org/details/lucretiustodaypodcast
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Pacatus
April 25, 2024 at 2:16 PM Reacted with to Joshua’s post in the thread The Passing of Prof. Daniel Dennett.Reaction (Post)https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/boo…nnett-dead.html
One of the less well-known among the so-called New Atheists, prof. Dennett has had a rich career working on problems relating to free will, evolutionary biology, and the origin of consciousness.
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Pacatus
April 25, 2024 at 1:52 PM Replied to the thread What Epicurus Offers To The Modern World As Of April, 2024?.Post[…]
Or who gets to declare if the proper and necessary criteria are met to be an Epicurean – and what those criteria are for anyone/everyone? It’s for questions like these that I am loath to call myself an Epicurean (or a/an anything along those lines). I… -
Pacatus
April 25, 2024 at 12:45 PM Reacted with to Don’s post in the thread What Epicurus Offers To The Modern World As Of April, 2024?.Reaction (Post)There have been some great responses to your original list of questions, Cassius . Here's my take fwiw:
Don't you have to be rich to be an Epicurean?
No, but... It seems to me you have to have your basic needs met. You don't need to be "rich" (however… -
Don
April 25, 2024 at 12:04 PM Reacted with to Cassius’s post in the thread Episodes Of Lucretius Today Available At Archive.org.Reaction (Post)Today we updated Archive.org so that all episodes up through the current episode 225 are now available.
https://archive.org/details/lucretiustodaypodcast
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Cassius
April 25, 2024 at 11:14 AM Replied to the thread Episode 226 - Cicero's On The Nature of The Gods - Epicurean Section 01 (Not Yet Recorded).Post- Topics For This Week:
- Cicero says that the greater part of mankind is united in what Nature leads us to suppose, which is that there are gods.
- Protagorus and Diagorus the Melian and Theodorus of Cyrene entirely believed that there are no gods.
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Cassius
April 25, 2024 at 10:17 AM Replied to the thread Episodes Of Lucretius Today Available At Archive.org.PostToday we updated Archive.org so that all episodes up through the current episode 225 are now available.
https://archive.org/details/lucretiustodaypodcast
Looks like the total download is now up to about 11.2 gigabytes. -
Cassius
April 25, 2024 at 10:15 AM Reacted with to Joshua’s post in the thread Scroll Development Relating to Plato's Grave (Related to the Recent AI Work?).Reaction (Post)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_…%E2%80%9386_BC)
He encircled the city and the port. This would involve constructing a defensible palisade out of local timber, stone, brick, and whatever else was at hand.
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Joshua
April 25, 2024 at 10:10 AM Replied to the thread Scroll Development Relating to Plato's Grave (Related to the Recent AI Work?).Posthttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_…%E2%80%9386_BC)
He encircled the city and the port. This would involve constructing a defensible palisade out of local timber, stone, brick, and whatever else was at hand.
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Cassius
April 25, 2024 at 8:43 AM Replied to the thread Scroll Development Relating to Plato's Grave (Related to the Recent AI Work?).Post[…]
I am not familiar with this episode. Did he destroy all of the schools or did he play favorites? Sulla has always been an enigmatic figure in my mind. -
Don
April 25, 2024 at 8:36 AM Reacted with to Cassius’s post in the thread Scroll Development Relating to Plato's Grave (Related to the Recent AI Work?).Reaction (Post)https://interestingengineering.com/culture/plato-burial-bionic-eye
This article is very ambiguous and unclear as it appears they are talking about scrolls that may be from Philodemus, but the article is about where Plato is buried:
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Cassius
ThreadApril 25, 2024 at 8:33 AM https://interestingengineering.com/culture/plato-burial-bionic-eye
This article is very ambiguous and unclear as it appears they are talking about scrolls that may be from Philodemus, but the article is about where Plato is buried:
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Cassius
April 25, 2024 at 8:26 AM Reacted with to Don’s post in the thread The Passing of Prof. Daniel Dennett.Reaction (Post)youtu.be/wFQ4v9BZD8s?feature=shared
This conversation between Dawkins and Dennett hits, probably inadvertently, a number of Epicurean themes. This seems to dovetail with the thread on what Epicurean philosophy offers in April 2024. We live in a time… -
Kalosyni
April 25, 2024 at 8:23 AM Reacted with to Don’s post in the thread The Passing of Prof. Daniel Dennett.Reaction (Post)youtu.be/wFQ4v9BZD8s?feature=shared
This conversation between Dawkins and Dennett hits, probably inadvertently, a number of Epicurean themes. This seems to dovetail with the thread on what Epicurean philosophy offers in April 2024. We live in a time… -
Don
April 25, 2024 at 8:13 AM Replied to the thread The Passing of Prof. Daniel Dennett.Postyoutu.be/wFQ4v9BZD8s?feature=shared
This conversation between Dawkins and Dennett hits, probably inadvertently, a number of Epicurean themes. This seems to dovetail with the thread on what Epicurean philosophy offers in April 2024. We live in a time… -
Martin
April 25, 2024 at 7:03 AM Reacted with to Pacatus’s post in the thread What Epicurus Offers To The Modern World As Of April, 2024?.Reaction (Post)[…]
Even a simple, bite-by-bite imbibing of Epicurean principles can (in my opinion) be helpful in getting one’s life together (just as in many therapies). A deep, time-consuming dive into scholarship or even popular sources (such as Emily Austin) is… -
Martin
April 25, 2024 at 7:03 AM Reacted with to Joshua’s post in the thread What Epicurus Offers To The Modern World As Of April, 2024?.Reaction (Post)[…]
The phrase "meaning of life" first appears in the record of the English language in 1834. 18 years after the invention of the heliotype, 3 years earlier than the invention of the telegraph.
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--Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
The meaning of this…