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Bryan
Reaction (Post)July 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM Since I am still unable to participate fully in the forum, I wanted to share a piece of secondary literature that I recently came across and have been actively reading these days. The author is Ivan Nišavić, a local scholar from my region, and the work… -
Pacatus
July 23, 2026 at 1:22 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread FollowUp On Quote Submitted By Pacatus - "It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society.".Update On This Thread -- I have split this quotation and subsequent responses so we can focus on it with greater focus.
Clearly Diogenes Laertius and Torquatus make statements to the effect that "the wise man is always happy."
Nevertheless Epicurus did not… -
Pacatus
July 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Bryan’s post in the thread FollowUp On Quote Submitted By Pacatus - "It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society.".[…]
I agree. For Epicurus, every experience is sensory. There is no experience without sensation.
To such an extent is this true that “Pathos” – which is the word usually translated as “feeling” in Epicurean texts – IS the Greek word “experience.”
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Cassius
PostJuly 23, 2026 at 1:18 PM Update On This Thread -- I have split this quotation and subsequent responses so we can focus on it with greater focus.
Clearly Diogenes Laertius and Torquatus make statements to the effect that "the wise man is always happy."
Nevertheless Epicurus did not… -
Randall Moose
Reaction (Post)July 23, 2026 at 9:57 AM This is going to be a longer post, so here's a brief summary of what this is about:
The attached PDF contains 100 fragments related to Metrodorus' life and works. The document includes both ancient testimonia and extant fragments. It's divided into two… -
Julia
Reaction (Post)July 23, 2026 at 4:52 AM […]
And interestingly, no - we can't even agree to that.. The "experts" themselves are all over the board as to what pleasures really fall within katastematic and kinetic in the first place. I have been going through the Kelly Arenson book today and she -… -
Julia
Reaction (Post)July 23, 2026 at 4:49 AM There are all sorts of things that are reasonable Dave, but prolonged advocacy that Epicurus held that anything other than the word Pleasure is the supreme good is the target of this policy for the reasons stated in the article.
If the policy is unclear… -
Julia
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Julia
July 23, 2026 at 4:45 AM Reacted withReaction (Blog Article)
to the blog article Against Katastematic Supremacy - Pleasure Is A Unified Good, Not A House Divided Against Itself - INCLUDES FORUM EDITORIAL POLICY.The Current Establishment View - Which It Is the Editorial Policy Of EpicureanFriends.com to Reject
With only a few notable exceptions, practically every modern account of Epicurean ethics repeats the same claim: Epicurus divided pleasure into two… -
Joshua
Reaction (Post)July 22, 2026 at 10:18 PM Since I am still unable to participate fully in the forum, I wanted to share a piece of secondary literature that I recently came across and have been actively reading these days. The author is Ivan Nišavić, a local scholar from my region, and the work…
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