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    Here is an article that takes a different view from the one that I posted above, and which makes good points also:

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    No doubt! Once I saw a few Lucretian callbacks in Shakespeare, I began compiling a list of other writers who make explicit or indirect mention of either Epicurean Philosophy or De Rerum Natura (usually the latter, having been received from Latin): …
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    Cassius , thank you for starting this thread, and glad folks are finding the essay of interest! I became intrigued by Gassendi for reasons that have been touched on in the thread--i.e., he's a crucial link to the modern era. I was specifically…
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    And LAST one, promise, Epicurus Ancient:

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    Okay, now I'm obsessed ^^ so I decided to try some variation on the "Epicurus Tartan." Here is the tartan in a Weathered (or "Reproduction") Palette. You'll note that the sett is the same (the thread count and order) but the specific colors themselves have…
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    As for me personally this may be why i think the word "Quasi" always sounds fake or negative:

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    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.…
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    Eikadistes thank you for all that commentary!

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    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…
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    So Francois Bernier is the person to whom we owe so much here for access to this material:

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    Bernier abridged and translated the philosophical writings of his friend Pierre Gassendi from Latin into French.…
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