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Twentier
Reaction (Post)July 26, 2024 at 8:21 PM What is a good Epicurean exercise that you can do using a smartwatch? Simple!
Stop wearing your smartwatch for 1 week. Notice and respond to your sensations and feelings. And your preconceptions.
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Kalosyni
July 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM Has solved the quiz Basic Epicurean Ethics.Quiz -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)July 26, 2024 at 3:06 PM What is a good Epicurean exercise that you can do using a smartwatch? Simple!
Stop wearing your smartwatch for 1 week. Notice and respond to your sensations and feelings. And your preconceptions.
Enjoy! -
Bryan
Reaction (Post)July 26, 2024 at 2:42 PM What is a good Epicurean exercise that you can do using a smartwatch? Simple!
Stop wearing your smartwatch for 1 week. Notice and respond to your sensations and feelings. And your preconceptions.
Enjoy! -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)July 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM What is a good Epicurean exercise that you can do using a smartwatch? Simple!
Stop wearing your smartwatch for 1 week. Notice and respond to your sensations and feelings. And your preconceptions.
Enjoy! -
Godfrey
July 26, 2024 at 2:23 PM Posted the thread Practical Exercises: the smartwatch.ThreadWhat is a good Epicurean exercise that you can do using a smartwatch? Simple!
Stop wearing your smartwatch for 1 week. Notice and respond to your sensations and feelings. And your preconceptions.
Enjoy! -
Martin
Reaction (Post)July 26, 2024 at 1:46 AM This is a very rough list I made at the beginning of the year (based mostly on Sedley's work on Book 28). This list is not very well done, is not complete, and perhaps should not even be in this form. We can be sure Epicurus was aware of such… -
Bryan
July 25, 2024 at 11:48 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Epicureanism and Scientism: What are the main differences?.
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Godfrey
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 8:35 PM This is a very rough list I made at the beginning of the year (based mostly on Sedley's work on Book 28). This list is not very well done, is not complete, and perhaps should not even be in this form. We can be sure Epicurus was aware of such… -
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 8:35 PM Not quite so elegant as the photo above, but perhaps conveys the point just as well. You can only fill the bucket so far, and the bucket never gets more full than full.
PD18. The pleasure in the flesh is not increased when once the pain due to want is… -
Bryan
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM Anyone have thoughts on how "analogy" differs from "similarity"? -
Bryan
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 7:38 PM Analogy compares things which are alike in relationship, cause, operation, throughput, etc. Similarity compares things which are alike in nature, shape, size, origin, and so on.
The way in which ocean liners transport people is similar to the way in which… -
Cassius
July 25, 2024 at 6:39 PM Replied to the thread Methods Or Considerations In Thinking.PostI think this is well worth exploring because it's probably the front line of the way the Epicureans would have distinguished their approach to the search for truth as opposed to the use of "formal logic" by the other philosophers. Looking for and setting… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 6:36 PM Analogy compares things which are alike in relationship, cause, operation, throughput, etc. Similarity compares things which are alike in nature, shape, size, origin, and so on.
The way in which ocean liners transport people is similar to the way in which… -
Twentier
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 6:17 PM Yes, On Methods of Inference is very difficult and On Nature book 28 is too. I was a bit wary to even bring up this list, because I am not ready to go back into either one just yet!
On a related note, I cannot look at my work for very long without seeing… -
Joshua
July 25, 2024 at 6:16 PM Replied to the thread Methods Or Considerations In Thinking.PostAnalogy compares things which are alike in relationship, cause, operation, throughput, etc. Similarity compares things which are alike in nature, shape, size, origin, and so on.
The way in which ocean liners transport people is similar to the way in which… -
kochiekoch
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 6:13 PM Joshua came up with the question in the title of this thread in part because Kalosyni asked for an explanation of PD19 .
One way of attacking that original question is to visualize water, symbolic of pleasure, being poured in to a jar, which symbolizes a… -
kochiekoch
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 6:12 PM Finite time and infinite time contain the same amount of joy, if its limits are measured out through reasoning. [Saint-Andre translation; Also VS22, by the way]
Unlimited time and limited time afford an equal amount of pleasure, if we measure the limits… -
Cassius
July 25, 2024 at 5:38 PM Replied to the thread Methods Or Considerations In Thinking.PostAnyone have thoughts on how "analogy" differs from "similarity"? -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)July 25, 2024 at 5:36 PM Yes, On Methods of Inference is very difficult and On Nature book 28 is too. I was a bit wary to even bring up this list, because I am not ready to go back into either one just yet!
On a related note, I cannot look at my work for very long without seeing…