Fourth Sunday Zoom - Jan. 25, 2026 - Epicurean Philosophy Discussion Via Zoom - Agenda

Hi Everyone, Coming up this next Sunday is our "Fourth Sunday Epicurean Philosophy Discussion" Via Zoom -- open to forum members. If you haven't previously attended a Sunday Zoom, let us know if you are interested (either here in this thread or by private message to Cassius) so we can get the link to you.

This month's discussion topic: "Pleasure, Atoms, and the Foundations of Epicurean Ethics" - presented by Cassius

This will be based upon sections of the David Sedley article, which you can read here.

Hope to see you there!

fyi - The Fourth Sunday topic that was posted earlier today has now been changed to: "Pleasure, Atoms, and the Foundations of Epicurean Ethics" - facilitated by Cassius.

The thread for on that article is here:

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Inferential Foundations of Epicurean Ethics - Article By David Sedley

In researching other issues I came across this article by David Sedley: Inferential Foundations of Epicurean Ethics

While I have some issues with the first section, but that's only a brief summary of Epicurean ethics and not essential to the main point of the article. The main part thrust of the article is to examine how Epicurus constructed his argument that in ethics good and bad divides into pleasure and pain in much the same way that in physics everything int he universe divides into bodies…

Cassius

January 22, 2026 at 2:28 PM