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Patrikios
PostFebruary 14, 2026 at 5:43 PM […]
I'm watching the video and seeing English captions. In the YouTube Settings I selected Closed Captioning with Auto-Translate to English.
Maybe some of the presentation papers will get translated into English, such as Christos Yapijakis has done for… -
Kalosyni
February 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM Posted the thread Happy Valentine's Day 2026.Thread
One important thing that makes for both good (enjoyable) friendships and good (enjoyable) romantic relationships...emotional validation:
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You can read the full article here:
https://blog.smilingmind.com.au/the-art-of-emotional-validation
There are a… -
Eikadistes
PostFebruary 14, 2026 at 10:11 AM Unfortunately, YouTube does not support CC/subtitles for this presentation.
They're just getting started. -
Cassius
PostFebruary 13, 2026 at 6:42 PM Episode 320 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. This week our episode is entitled: "Is The Good of A Sheep The Same As The Good of A Man?"
[media]https://www.spreaker.com/episode/70052681/media -
Eikadistes
PostFebruary 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM The direct YouTube link is here. It'll begin in 20 hours or so. -
Eikadistes
PostFebruary 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM […]
I just heard back! Here's what they have to share:
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Kalosyni
February 13, 2026 at 8:13 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.Post -
Cassius
February 13, 2026 at 4:05 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy Birthday to mlinssen! Learn more about mlinssen and say happy birthday on mlinssen's timeline: mlinssen -
Cassius
PostFebruary 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM In this episode one of the issues discussed was Cicero ridiculing Epicurus for taking a position that Cicero characterizes as saying that the good of a sheep and the good of a man are the same. That line of argument appears in a number of places that we… -
Cassius
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Patrikios
PostFebruary 12, 2026 at 10:38 AM […]
Cassius
I was not able to open the link provided.
I did open this root URL
https://epicuros.gr/Symposio/
If we can get access to pdf docs of the presentations (in Greek I expect), the Google translation gives us some ideas of the message's. -
Eikadistes
PostFebruary 12, 2026 at 9:32 AM I tried making a connection with them, hoping for a live stream. No one's gotten back yet. I tried reaching Christos at ideoszen@gmail.com (I'm curious if anyone has a different e-mail for them).
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Cassius
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kochiekoch
February 11, 2026 at 4:50 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostThanks to one and all!
Alexa says thanks too! Even if it's not her birthday! 
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Godfrey
February 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy birthday! -
Pacatus
February 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy Birthday, Steve! -
Kalosyni
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Kalosyni
February 10, 2026 at 1:18 PM Posted the thread Cognitive Bias and Decision Making.ThreadI found this website which lists various cognitive biases:
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Read more:
https://alliancefordecisioneducation.org/what-is-decision-education/cognitive-biases/
(scroll both up and down on that website to read the various biases) -
Eikadistes
February 10, 2026 at 8:27 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy birthday(s)! -
Cassius
February 10, 2026 at 6:48 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy birthday kochiekoch and Alexa! -
Cassius
February 10, 2026 at 4:05 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy Birthday to kochiekoch! Learn more about kochiekoch and say happy birthday on kochiekoch's timeline: kochiekoch -
Cassius
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM Replied to the thread Media Versions of Diogenes Laertius Life of Epicurus.PostI will be working to improve the text of the text-to-speech version of Bailey being used to generate the one based on Joshua's voice.
I am going to try to learn GIT so I can keep better track of changes and more easily accept suggestions. Given the… -
Cassius
February 8, 2026 at 12:09 PM Posted the thread Media Versions of Diogenes Laertius Life of Epicurus.ThreadI'll add other links as I find them but we need a media (audio) version of the Life of Epicurus, so this will start that process.
First, I have two versions of Book 10. The first and latest is Cyril Bailey translation. This is a first draft and I am going… -
Cassius
February 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM Replied to the thread Episode 321 - The Epicurean Problems With Socrates - Not Yet Recorded.PostIn addition to the reference in Academic Questions, we have these additional citations to consider in contrasting Cicero's praise of Socrates to the Epicurean criticism of Socrates. The Epicurean criticism divides into at least two categories (1)… -
Cassius
February 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM Posted the thread Episode 321 - The Epicurean Problems With Socrates - Not Yet Recorded.ThreadWelcome to Episode 321 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the… -
Kalosyni
February 8, 2026 at 9:19 AM Replied to the thread Epicurean Virtue.Post[…]
I think that is why it works better to say that there are multiple "goods" for an Epicurean -- friendship is a great good, but not the "highest good". And "virtue" is a good, when it leads to a pleasant life. As for "pleasures", you could choose to… -
DaveT
February 8, 2026 at 8:00 AM Replied to the thread Current Series - Summarizing Epicurean Answers to Tusculan Questions.PostCassius Agreed. I put eternal in quotes in reference to the proponents of eternal forms, etc. -
Matteng
February 8, 2026 at 6:56 AM Replied to the thread Epicurean Virtue.PostCassius
Yes a crucial point, I meant philia as a positive attitude in contrast to justice as avoiding negative things.
And yes, dead we avoid all pain 😅
It is more about a kind of satisfied life or agreement with one life. A life with positive value, it… -
Cassius
February 8, 2026 at 6:49 AM Replied to the thread Epicurean Virtue.Post[…]
In the end Epicurus is defining pleasure so broadly that in the end it's not really logically consistent to say "friendship and pleasure" given that. Friendship or anything else is either pleasurable (or leading to more pleasure than pain, even if… -
Cassius
February 8, 2026 at 6:39 AM Replied to the thread Current Series - Summarizing Epicurean Answers to Tusculan Questions.Post[…]
In my view, I would expect Epicurus to have been suspicious of anything claiming to be "eternal" by nature, since it's core physics that only the atoms have that attribute, and it appears that the gods only have it "by virtue" of their being able to…
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