Kinetic and Katastematic Pleasure

For Discussion of the Distinction Between The Two Categories, and Whether the Distinction Was Important To Epicurus

    2. "Objection Your Honor! Attorney Cicero Is Mischaracterizing the Testimony To Mislead The Jury! The Evidence Is Clear: Not Only Is "Ataraxia" Not The Highest Pleasure - Ataraxia Alone Is Not A Pleasure At All! 2

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    2. What A Mess This K / K Issue Is - Here is Someone Saying These are "The Most Dominant Terms In Epicurus' Theory of Pleasures" 7

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    2. Another Article Insisting On The Importance of the Kinetic / Katestematic Distinction, Despite Citing Nikolsky

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    2. Dialogue on Katastematic Pleasure 38

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    2. DeWitt: "It Makes No Difference That Some Pleasures Are Static And Some Are Kinetic" 20

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    2. Nikolsky: "Epicurus On Pleasure" - Revising Our View of the Katastematic / Kinetic Question 2

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    2. Wenham - On Cicero's Interpretation of Katastematic Pleaure In Epicurus

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Key Discussions Table

Physics: Canonics: Ethics:
Materiality:  Ultimate Particles and Void
 The Three Components of The Epicurean Canon Pleasure As the Highest Good
Epicurean Gods And Life Elsewhere In The Universe
 Epicurean Logic, Reason, And Knowledge Virtue As Instrumental To Pleasure
The Impossibility of Life After Death
 The Trustworthiness of the Senses The Relationship of Pleasure To Absence of Pain And Disturbance
The Existence of "the Swerve"
 What Is Truth? Emotion In Epicurean Philosophy
The Universe As Eternal In Time
 The Significance of "Images" Engagement With The Non-Epicurean World
The Universe As Infinite In Space
Agency / Free Will
The Universe As Having No Center
Friendship in Epicurean Philosophy
The Impossibility of Infinite Divisibility
 Justice in Epicurean Philosophy

Dealing With Adversity