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Martin
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Upbeat, Optimistic, and Joyful Epicurean Text Excerpts.[…]
As I was listening to an audio recording of De Rerum Natura last week when sick in bed, this section cheered me up:
De Rerum Natura, Book 2, section 142 (Humphries translation):
When dawn bathes earth with morning light, and birds,
All kinds of them,… -
Godfrey
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Eikadistes’s post in the thread Any Recommendations on “The Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism”?.[…]
I respectfully believe that the original quote creates a misconception about the nature of "divine simulacra" by mistakenly equating the words "eidola" with "divine images": eidola are not necessarily "divine", most are just the mundane images we see… -
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)November 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM […]
Cassius Thanks for that analysis as you read through those 70 pages on #Happiness. I liked how Gassendi gives some added perspective on dealing with pain.
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This describes how we should prepare mentally for difficulties *before* they arrive.… -
DaveT
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM Replied to the thread Any Recommendations on “The Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism”?.PostEikadistes Thank you for taking the time to address my questions in detail. -
DaveT
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Eikadistes’s post in the thread Any Recommendations on “The Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism”?.[…]
I respectfully believe that the original quote creates a misconception about the nature of "divine simulacra" by mistakenly equating the words "eidola" with "divine images": eidola are not necessarily "divine", most are just the mundane images we see… -
Robert
Reaction (Post)November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM So Francois Bernier is the person to whom we owe so much here for access to this material:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bernier
Bernier abridged and translated the philosophical writings of his friend Pierre Gassendi from Latin into French.… -
Robert
Reaction (Post)November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM The PDF at Archive.org that you've found Tau Phi contains the full book and therefore considerable commentary on Epicurus under both the topics of Virtue and Liberty (Virtue i know because I've now glanced at most of it; Liberty I am presuming.).
This is… -
Robert
Reaction (Post)November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM […]
Pierre Gassendi lived and worked in the 17th century. This is historically very important period for the revival of Epicureanism as the philosophy started to get some traction again but at that time everything got filtered through Christianity.… -
Robert
Reaction (Post)November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM Thank you Tau Phi this will be extremely helpful!
As a test I decided to look for the original version of whatever was used to generate this part, which occurs on page 21 right before the beginning of the section entitled "How Epicurus and Aristippus…
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