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Cassius
June 21, 2026 at 4:44 PM Replied to the thread Article - David Sedley - 1988 - "Epicurean Anti-Reductionism".PostSignificant discussion recently here on the forum about emergence and Epicurus' opposition to Democritus' atomic reductionism, so just bumping this thread to remind people of the existence of this article by David Sedley directly on point.
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Cassius
Reaction (Post)June 21, 2026 at 3:46 PM This may need it's own thread, but currently this section of the forum is set up so that no new threads can be added.
Does Principal Doctrine 24 & 25, describe how "principled action" is arrived at?
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wbernys
Reaction (Post)June 21, 2026 at 1:27 PM This may need it's own thread, but currently this section of the forum is set up so that no new threads can be added.
Does Principal Doctrine 24 & 25, describe how "principled action" is arrived at?
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Kalosyni
June 21, 2026 at 12:23 PM Replied to the thread PD24 - Commentary and Translation of PD 24.PostThis may need it's own thread, but currently this section of the forum is set up so that no new threads can be added.
Does Principal Doctrine 24 & 25, describe how "principled action" is arrived at?
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DaveT
Reaction (Post)June 21, 2026 at 10:30 AM Part of Lucretius' Book 3 Proem sang in classical Latin pronunciation to some medieval-like music. Lovely stuff.
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Martin
Reaction (Post)June 21, 2026 at 9:25 AM Thanks everyone. My own researched showed Clinamen Vitae to be a fairly modern term, but I asked in case I missed anything. I came across the Latin term myself when I coined the term 'life swerve' as an analogy of the swerve of the atom, in which we can… -
Don
Reaction (Post)June 21, 2026 at 8:56 AM Thanks everyone. My own researched showed Clinamen Vitae to be a fairly modern term, but I asked in case I missed anything. I came across the Latin term myself when I coined the term 'life swerve' as an analogy of the swerve of the atom, in which we can… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)June 21, 2026 at 8:50 AM Thanks everyone. My own researched showed Clinamen Vitae to be a fairly modern term, but I asked in case I missed anything. I came across the Latin term myself when I coined the term 'life swerve' as an analogy of the swerve of the atom, in which we can… -
Autoataraxic
Reaction (Post)June 21, 2026 at 8:46 AM Glad to have you autoataraxic. When I search i don't bring up much other than an article written by Elli Pensa, a friend of ours in Greece a couple of years ago. I don't find any historic use of it from the ancient world.
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Autoataraxic
Reaction (Post)June 21, 2026 at 8:46 AM I am not aware of the term in ancient literature. However, let me include this section from Epicurus' On Nature, Book 25, which seems to be related to the idea:
"…[1] Those movements that have been fully generated are fully produced according to the…
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