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Kalosyni
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Reaction (Post)June 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM Sunday June 14, 2026 - Zoom Discussion 12:30 PM EST - Lucretius Book Review - Lucretius Book 1 - 645 - The Competitor Theories As To What Things Are Made Of- Welcome and news / requests for new topics. We'll continue to deal with individual topics as they
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Don
Reaction (Post)June 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM From the article:
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In other words, he stopped teaching Stoicism, and started teaching modern psychology. He detached his teaching from any evaluation as to whether happiness is or should be the goal of life, whether there is eternal punishment after… -
Titus
Reaction (Post)June 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM Also Titus this chat exchange has me thinking about something that I think needs to be a focus of the forum in the future - and it's an aspect of prolepsis.
Taken separately, I think the data in the chat you presented is largely correct. As I said it's… -
Titus
Reaction (Post)June 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM […]
So Bryan correct me if I am wrong here but this is how the entire discussion of prolepsis refutes what Plato had taught about ideal forms/reincarnation.
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Joshua
June 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM Replied to the thread Relationship between AI/LLMs and prolepsis.Post[…]
I have my own questions on this topic, DaveT , but I have come to an understanding that may be helpful on this one.
Here is Bailey's translation of the text from the Letter to Menoikeus:
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Regarding the sentence I've underlined, I no longer read… -
Cassius
June 13, 2026 at 1:14 PM Replied to the thread Relationship between AI/LLMs and prolepsis.Post[…]
At least as for me, I don't mean to say that Epicurus believed in the "Greek Gods." He may have spoken loosely at times about one or another of them, but I interpret him as never straying from the point that "gods as a class" exist - not that any… -
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