Posts by Hiram
Listen to the latest Lucretius Today Podcast! Episode 225 is now available. Cicero Argues That A Commitment To Virtue Is A Bar to Pleasure.
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Panel and interview sound the least boring and the most likely to keep people coming and to generate opportunities for useful and relevant content.
It would also be of mutual benefit for Epicureans to participate in popular philosophy podcasts like Partially Examined Life and others, and to expand presence and content on youtube.
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This reminds me of Michel Onfray's praise of ancient philosophers who rejected Stoicism because they felt that they had to be true to their bodies and wanted to philosophize with their bodies--making the body a token of one's conscience because it represents that which we know with all our being to be true.
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I don't know if you've seen this before, Joshua but I have a full series of essays on Horace (on whose shoulders you stand as an Epicurean poet)
http://societyofepicurus.com/in-memory-of-horace-carpe-diem/
His Epistle to the Pisos (the same family who hired Philodemus to teach them philosophy in Herculaneum) is also called "Art of Poetry" and contains Horace's advise to poets and writers.
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Along the lines of this discussion, This reminds me of Luis Granados comparison in his “Happy Twentieth” essay of the Twentieth as a more intimate, personal alternative to the Sunday Assemblies.
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The author read my book, that's how I know of her.
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Here's my review of a book of the Cyrenaics
http://societyofepicurus.com/cyrenaic-reasonings/
Onfray also has a lot to say about them and about Aristippus
I read that essay recently. These discussions must have taken place at the onset of the Garden, because by the time Diogenes was writing I do not believe there is evidence of any Cyrenaic school, so I believe this means that Diogenes was citing or re-stating discussions from earlier, probably quoting from the founders themselves.
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Nice to see this! I hope you take pictures and post a full report so that I can post it on SoFE website!
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It’s in the ‘Metrodorus’ portion of Les Epicuriens. SHortly after the Epicurus portion.
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The word exists in both French and English as financier (noun) so it must have entered English when Normandie ruled England
And this is consistent with the designation of Metrodorus as an administrator in his biographies.
Meaning:
QuoteA person concerned with the management of large amounts of money on behalf of governments or other large organizations
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In addition, it’s possible to resume some of Metrodorus’ theses concerning both the sources from which one may procure wealth, as well as the manner by which one may preserve it. However, he constantly accentuated as a matter of fact, that to meet occasionally with perturbations, worries and troubles is much more advantageous for the best mode of life possible than the opposite choice. - Philodemus
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The good man is a good financier. That evil man is also a bad financier, just as Metrodorus has demonstrated. - Philodemus of Gadara
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I assume you mean this?
QuoteTimocrates was quoted as saying “that he both loved his brother as no one else did and hated him as no one else.”
The Wikipedia article on Timocrates,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timocrates_of_Lampsacus
cites this as the source:
^ Philodemus, On Frank Criticism, from Fitzgerald, J., Obbink, D., Holland, G., Philodemus and the New Testament World, page 64. BRILL.