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Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)April 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM […]
Certainly would be awesome. I mainly want Torquatus (And Velleius) speech included and some of the english to be more clear and a little less archaic (PD6 in hedonicon is a example where i struggled to understand it). Got the best of Epicurus by… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)April 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM […]
Certainly would be awesome. I mainly want Torquatus (And Velleius) speech included and some of the english to be more clear and a little less archaic (PD6 in hedonicon is a example where i struggled to understand it). Got the best of Epicurus by… -
Cassius
PostApril 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM Thanks Joshua. So clearly the word being used is "weight." It seems possible however that that does not end the inquiry because it's potentially not clear what is meant by weight.
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Cassius
April 12, 2026 at 4:51 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Joshua’s post in the thread Is Motion One Of The Three Eternal Properties of Atoms? I.E. Are The Three Properties Shape, Size, and MOTION?.[…] -
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April 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM Replied to the thread Welcome M Dango.Post[…]
Certainly would be awesome. I mainly want Torquatus (And Velleius) speech included and some of the english to be more clear and a little less archaic (PD6 in hedonicon is a example where i struggled to understand it). Got the best of Epicurus by… -
Cassius
April 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM Posted the thread General Analysis of Risk Aversion.ThreadIn a nearby thread we have discussed the analysis of space travel from the Epicurean point of view (Would Epicurus embrace going to the moon).
That's a very good specific example and might be all that's needed, but I am setting this thread up as a place… -
Cassius
PostApril 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM So the reason this topic came up today is that Patrikios brought up the question of whether atoms move because of some external force applied to them. And this directly relates to the motion of bodies such as magnets, discussed in Book 6 of Lucretius.
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Cassius
PostApril 12, 2026 at 2:19 PM The Routledge Encyclopedia entry by David Sedley4. Motion
Surprisingly, atoms never stop moving, even within a compound object, since the medium through which they move is void, which can offer them no resistance. More surprisingly, for the same reason… -
Cassius
PostApril 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM Ok I asked Claude to summarize David Sedley's position. Apparently the main article is not publicly available but I will include the cite below:
The key Sedley text regarding the Epicurean relationship between weight and motion turns out to be his own…
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