Nature of Pleasure

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The EpicureanFriends Files section is where our Level 3 and above participants store longer documents created offsite which are of special interest to the study of Epicurus. You can use the "Categories" box on the right to find specific sections of the library.

  1. Epicurus: The Summum Bonum Fallacy

    • Cassius
    • February 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM
    The aim of this article is to show how the lack of a definite article in Latin obliterated the doctrine of Epicurus that life itself and not pleasure is the greatest good.
    • 606 Downloads

  2. Gosling & Taylor - On Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure

    • Cassius
    • February 3, 2018 at 1:28 PM
    Gosling & Taylor on Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure
    • 386 Downloads

  3. Wenham - On Cicero's Interpretation of Katastematic Pleasure in Epicurus

    • Cassius
    • February 1, 2018 at 9:05 PM
    Every so often I like to remind people of two particularly important articles in our "files" section here.
    • 256 Downloads

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    2. The Use of Negation in Epicurean Philosophy Concepts 47

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    2. Diogenes Laertius Book X - public domain translations 5

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