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Stas
May 3, 2026 at 10:09 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Stas!.PostI have already read several books about Epicurus and his followers. Among them are books by Haris Dimitriadis and Hiram Crespo. I also read the primary sources: chapter 10 of the book by Diogenes Laertius and the Vatican Sayings (in Russian translation).… -
DaveT
May 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Eikadistes’s post in the thread Discussion of Blog Post: The Continuing Vitality of Epicurean Physics.“If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?””
Committing a crime in the name of self-preservation. Full stop. -
DaveT
May 3, 2026 at 9:50 AM Replied to the thread Discussion of Blog Post: The Continuing Vitality of Epicurean Physics.PostDon I read the take down of Dawkins that you linked above. One thing it and the other comments here made me think about was the question of the types of consciousness that exist. Can we agree that there are different types or levels? For instance,… -
Stas
May 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Stas!.PostHello. I'm mostly interested in epicurian ethics. I prefer practical things. -
Don
May 3, 2026 at 9:36 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
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Kalosyni
May 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Don’s post in the thread Neither "ataraxia" nor "not ataraxia", but "Joy as the goal".[…]
Singling out any one of the examples that Epicurus gives (ataraxia, aponia, khara, euphrosyne) as THE goal is problematic to different degrees.
Saying something like Pleasure is The Goal takes in the full spectrum of pleasure writ large. -
Don
May 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM Replied to the thread Neither "ataraxia" nor "not ataraxia", but "Joy as the goal".Post[…]
Singling out any one of the examples that Epicurus gives (ataraxia, aponia, khara, euphrosyne) as THE goal is problematic to different degrees.
Saying something like Pleasure is The Goal takes in the full spectrum of pleasure writ large. -
Matteng
May 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Neither "ataraxia" nor "not ataraxia", but "Joy as the goal". -
Kalosyni
May 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM Replied to the thread Neither "ataraxia" nor "not ataraxia", but "Joy as the goal".Post[…]
There is lots of good discussion happening here. But I wanted to re-state what and why I titled this thread as: "Neither "ataraxia" nor "not ataraxia" but "Joy as the goal". Perhaps it would have been more clear if I had said "eudiamonia" instead of… -
Matteng
May 3, 2026 at 8:58 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Don’s post in the thread Neither "ataraxia" nor "not ataraxia", but "Joy as the goal".
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