
October 12, 2022 - Wednesday Night Epicurean Zoom Discussion
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Please join us tonight if you can for the beginning of our review of the very challenging doctrines on "justice."
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For reference as to our discussion last night, and next week as well, please refer to this material from Cicero for an example of the "opposite" of the Epicurean view of justice:
ThreadCicero's "Republic" Book III, line XXII - "True Law Is Right Reason In Agreement With Nature"
I refer to his passage from Cicero's "Republic" very often to contrast it as essentially the opposite of Epicurus' view of justice, but I always have a hard time finding it when I need it. This post is just to provide some links and clips to the key passage:
Attalus: {22.} [33] L . . . True law is right reason in agreement with nature , it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. And it…CassiusJanuary 16, 2022 at 12:29 PM -
Kalosyni
March 28, 2024 at 10:08 AM Moved the thread from forum Wednesday Night Weekly Epicurean Philosophy Discussion Via Zoom to forum Studying the Principal Doctrines - Wednesday Night Zoom (Past Event).
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