Our recent discussions on Prolepsis, combined with the observation that our participants on Sundays in recent weeks have been some of our newest visitors, tells me that it would be a good idea for us to cycle through the most basic principles of Epicurean philosophy and emphasize how they are still relevant to modern life.
In recent months we've completed podcast episodes on each topic, so in addition to the written summaries we have here, we have close to an hour of pre-recorded discussion to which we can refer on each one.
Let's start at the top with "Nothing Can Be Created From Nothing." Like prolepsis, this is an aspect of basic theory that some may think is unrelated to modern life, but we'll discuss how Epicurus' chain of reasoning on this point remains key to the foundations of the entire doctrine, including the ethical conclusions.
We've mentioned that in many episodes of Lucretius Today, of course, but we devoted a full episode to it here:
The links above also lead to this slideshow, and since that go through each of them again, in live discussion, on Sunday:
