Posts by JamesPConnolly

Well well, I was reading one of the four letters a few days ago, the one to Pythocles.

It's intriguing to see someone putting together ideas of how things work with far less information, and in many cases coming to conclusions which are quite right. And others which are wrong.

A sort of illustration of how someone with a sound method understands the world, and what is elayed by the senses. A wonderful read,

A good topic for discussions, for example the part on clouds.

The most striking thing, for me, is how Epicurus presents his various explanations of observations as never the final word, but as a number of different explanations which are all consistent with observation, but different. He makes no claim to give the final word on a topic, but gives a ranges of possibilities.

This ties in with physics in a slightly different sense where science is only ever "the best explanation so far", which will always probably be developed further in time.

Most interesting, that letter. Some thoughts from a newcomer

Greetings all, in these interesting times we are in, the few thoughts we have straight from Epicurus are most useful in living a good life. I was raised in France where in the lycée we all do philosophy, and I was very keen on this, and still am, and on conversation in general. I then ended up in physics, which is, of course, a branch of philosophy, now on renewable energy from a semiconductor physics perspective.
And I happened across this site for reasons I forget, and am adding this address to the two others I frequently refer to which are epicurus.net and Plato over at Stanford.

Salutations, James

Greetings all, I wrote a post here, then thought I should repost it lower down. I am exploring the correct route to introducing myself whereas as a reply, or as a note all of my own, and have settled on the latter.

In conclusion, glad to participate !