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Bryan
June 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Episode 284 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life?.Episode 284 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. Today we continue Part Two of Cicero's treatment of the nature of evil in Tusculan Disputations, and our episode is entitled: "In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect, Or Does Practice… -
sanantoniogarden
June 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Sunday, June 8, 2025 - Discussion Topic - "Practice" In Relation To Pain, Pleasure, and Happiness.[…]
I have to disagree with that conclusion as stated. As we know there were many Roman military men who were Epicurean, and if they had become generals without military exercises I suspect their detractors would point that out. There's also no general… -
Martin
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Martin
Reaction (Post)June 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM Hello Robert, the book can be purchased here:
https://bibliopolis.it/shop/on-choices-and-avoidances/
Most of it is commentary and the translation only runs a few pages:
"It is fair that we speak against the rest of people who have a contrary opinion about… -
Martin
June 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Joshua’s post in the thread Updated Thoughts on the Question of "Peace and Safety" in the Works of Norman Dewitt.St. Paul and EpicurusProf. Dewitt cites the scriptures of the Christians many times in Epicurus and His Philosophy, but a longer and more focused treatment is in another work entitled St. Paul and Epicurus. Both were published in 1954, and, while a… -
Martin
June 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Joshua’s post in the thread Updated Thoughts on the Question of "Peace and Safety" in the Works of Norman Dewitt.IntroductionItem number 6 on the Getting Started page here at the forum reads as follows;
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We continue to recommend Norman Dewitt's book on Epicurus for many reasons, not least among them being, first, his comprehensive, well-ordered, and systematic… -
Robert
June 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM Replied to the thread Tsouna's On Choices and Avoidances.PostBryan thanks very much for this! I was interested primarily in the text, though I'm sure the commentary is valuable as well.
Thanks also to you, Don, for the WorldCat link. Possibly some options there.
