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Noah Calderon
ThreadJuly 4, 2026 at 4:13 AM I live in a country (Finland) that consistently has very high levels of social trust and trust in government and other institutions. As a result, I do often feel at ease and confident in the future containing the same necessities for happiness that I… -
Matteng
Reaction (Post)July 4, 2026 at 3:54 AM Max DuBoff : I want to really emphasize that I greatly appreciate your willingness to engage on these topics. This thread has grown WAY beyond a "Welcome Max DuBoff "
so this has been both intellectually stimulating and fun. Thank you.
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Don
July 4, 2026 at 12:13 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Max Duboff.PostMax DuBoff : I want to really emphasize that I greatly appreciate your willingness to engage on these topics. This thread has grown WAY beyond a "Welcome Max DuBoff " so this has been both intellectually stimulating and fun. Thank you.
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Don
July 3, 2026 at 11:08 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Max Duboff.Post[…]
I personally like something like "complete" to riff on the connotation of "all (pan-) goals (telos) have been met or achieved." There's nothing lacking, which I realize form an English semantic perspective, you could use "perfect." But to me,… -
Godfrey
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Regarding pantelēs: I'm quite ignorant of the nuances of Greek (not just the nuances, most of it) but I see from Nate Bartman's compilation of PD translations that translations of PD21 are fairly evenly divided by translating it as perfect and… -
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM […]
This is a great summarization of my views, along with what I believe Epicurus believed.
Someone feeling perpetual joy or delight is not in any way inferior or superior to feeling constant Serenity or Tranquility. Both are equally Pleaseant. Kinetic and… -
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 8:19 PM […]
I've now reread the thread, and I'm going to respond to a number of posts, but I think it'd be more helpful to write a few paragraphs than respond to individual points. If there's an individual point from upthread which you think is important for the… -
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM […]
Thanks for this idea. Although I largely agree with Cassius just below, it's good that you raised this, because one of the biggest developments in 20th-century scholarship on Epicurus was less attention paid to PD 9. I don't mean to necessarily say… -
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM […]
Thanks for this point, Don. Antiparatattesthai is markedly military language, evoking a battle line and the presence of an enemy. It derives from paratattein, which refers to arranging battle lines. Antiparatattesthai is perhaps best translated as… -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM DaveT Thank you for your kind words and your thoughtful reflection.
Epicurus would agree with you that intimacy and friendship are deeply intertwined. In fact, in Diogenes Laertius "on the wise man" we read that friendship begins from practical need,…
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