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Cassius
Reaction (Post)November 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM https://www.attalus.org/translate/epicurus.html
See U67 for even more (copied here for convenience. These include Joshua's citations, too; just with additional context.)
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Cassius
Reaction (Post)November 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM Yes, that fragment is remarkably well-attested:
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Cassius
Reaction (Post)November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM Cassius I can't help but be amused by Gassendi's tactic for defusing this problematic (from his point of view) Epicurean statement--blame it on the slanderous Stoics! But I notice that in "On the Nature of the Gods," it's Cotta the Academic Skeptic… -
Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM https://www.attalus.org/translate/epicurus.html
See U67 for even more (copied here for convenience. These include Joshua's citations, too; just with additional context.)
[ U67 ]
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, XII p. 546E: Not only Aristippus and his followers,… -
Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)November 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM Yes, that fragment is remarkably well-attested:
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Don
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM Replied to the thread Gassendi On Happiness.Posthttps://www.attalus.org/translate/epicurus.html
See U67 for even more (copied here for convenience. These include Joshua's citations, too; just with additional context.)
[ U67 ]
Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, XII p. 546E: Not only Aristippus and his followers,… -
Joshua
Reaction (Post)November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM Cassius I can't help but be amused by Gassendi's tactic for defusing this problematic (from his point of view) Epicurean statement--blame it on the slanderous Stoics! But I notice that in "On the Nature of the Gods," it's Cotta the Academic Skeptic… -
Joshua
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM Replied to the thread Gassendi On Happiness.PostYes, that fragment is remarkably well-attested:
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Robert
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM Replied to the thread Gassendi On Happiness.PostCassius I can't help but be amused by Gassendi's tactic for defusing this problematic (from his point of view) Epicurean statement--blame it on the slanderous Stoics! But I notice that in "On the Nature of the Gods," it's Cotta the Academic Skeptic… -
Robert
Reaction (Post)November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM Here's the detail on what was mentioned in post 7 above. On page 56 Bernier/Gassendi is alleging (incorrectly in my view) that Epicurus did not make the statement that he would not know what good is but for the pleasures of sensation. Rather, he's…
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