Episode 172 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 25 - Chapter 12 - The New Hedonism 01

    Welcome to Episode 172 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread for each of our podcast episodes and many other topics.


    We are now in the process of a series of podcasts intended to provide a general overview of Epicurean philosophy based on the organizational structure employed by Norman DeWitt in his book "Epicurus and His Philosophy."


    This week we begin our discussion of Chapter 12, entitled "The New Hedonism."


    • The “Summum Bonum” Fallacy
    • Pleasure Identified As the Telos
    • The True Nature of Pleasure
    • The Dualistic Good
    • The Natural Ceilings Of Pleasure
    • Pleasure Not Increased By Immortality
    • The Fullness of Pleasure
    • The Unity of Pleasure
    • The Root of All Good
    • Pleasure Can Be Continuous
    • Continuous Pain Impossible
    • The Relation of Pleasure To Virtue

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    Here's a post I did last year about DeWitt's "summum bonum fallacy" and the thread includes a link to DeWitt's paper dedicated to the topic, too:

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    RE: From The "Golden Mean" to tbe "Summum Bonum" - Useful or Deceptive Frames of Reference?
    Here are my thoughts on Norman DeWitt’s “Epicurus: The Summum Bonum Fallacy” (1950).

    Overall, I’m unimpressed with DeWitt’s aim of using a linguistic quirk between Greek and Latin to make a larger philosophical point. Numerous languages get by with no definite article and can convey as complex and nuanced as any language with a definite article: “Linguists believe the common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, Proto-Indo-European, did not have articles. Most of the languages in this…
    Don

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