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PostJune 25, 2026 at 8:07 PM Thanks wbernys you are right - I have fixed it now. -
Cassius
June 25, 2026 at 8:06 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to wbernys’s post in the thread What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal?.Hey Cassius , did you use the wrong quote?
You're quoting my own quotation of Diogenes but then talking about logical argument about pleasure being the highest good. Unless I'm missing the point. -
Joshua
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wbernys
June 25, 2026 at 4:43 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal?.[…]
I don't see it to be consistent with Epicurus either, but it IS a good illustration (apparently) of how someone can use persuasive logic and reach disastrously wrong conclusions.
And I think that's why Epicurus held that it is not necessary (or perhaps… -
Cassius
June 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM Replied to the thread Episode 339 - EATAQ21 - Stoic Views of Knowledge And The Emperor's New Clothes.PostEpisode 339 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. This week our episode is entitled: "Stoic Views of Knowledge And The Emperor's New Clothes."
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Martin
June 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to DaveT’s post in the thread What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal?.[…]
Nice try Cassius but NO. I listened to part of the "debate" and came away with a yawn. I checked out the Wiki pages of both men, too and decided they both prove why many Hellenist philosophers denigrated rhetoricians :). It looked like they were… -
Cassius
June 25, 2026 at 3:37 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Pacatus’s post in the thread There is One Reality but it is "Perspective Dependent".The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset develops his perspectivist view, at least implicitly (been too long since I read him), from the existentialist dictum “existence precedes essence” – i.e., we can only posit some “essence” of things… -
Cassius
PostJune 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM […]
I don't see it to be consistent with Epicurus either, but it IS a good illustration (apparently) of how someone can use persuasive logic and reach disastrously wrong conclusions.
And I think that's why Epicurus held that it is not necessary (or perhaps… -
Pacatus
June 25, 2026 at 3:25 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to DaveT’s post in the thread What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal?.[…]
Nice try Cassius but NO. I listened to part of the "debate" and came away with a yawn. I checked out the Wiki pages of both men, too and decided they both prove why many Hellenist philosophers denigrated rhetoricians :). It looked like they were…
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