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Cassius
Reaction (Post)July 19, 2026 at 8:48 PM Since tomorrow is the Twentieth... I am thinking again about this quote: "To-morrow, dearest Piso, your friend, beloved by the Muses, who keeps our annual feast of the twentieth invites you to come after the ninth hour to his simple cottage. If you miss… -
Cassius
July 19, 2026 at 6:44 PM Replied to the thread World's Worst Epicurus Videos.PostLooks to me like the same person is generating these - and apparently isn't through yet -
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Kalosyni
July 19, 2026 at 4:22 PM Replied to the thread Epigram on the Twentieth.PostSince tomorrow is the Twentieth... I am thinking again about this quote: "To-morrow, dearest Piso, your friend, beloved by the Muses, who keeps our annual feast of the twentieth invites you to come after the ninth hour to his simple cottage. If you miss… -
kochiekoch
July 19, 2026 at 3:27 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Discussion of Article: Living For the Pleasures Of The Moment Isn't Epicurean, It's Lunacy. -
Kalosyni
PostJuly 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM Trying out this analogy:
A meal served without something to drink would be considered incomplete...
"a meal" = all the many varied pleasures of life
"something to drink" = removing fears of death & gods and adding in prudence (the correct understanding of… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)July 19, 2026 at 2:40 PM […]
I haven't heard that word in quite some time... especially in a philosophical discussion
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Godfrey
PostJuly 19, 2026 at 2:39 PM […]
I haven't heard that word in quite some time... especially in a philosophical discussion -
Pacatus
Reaction (Post)July 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM […]
That would be exactly the analogy I seek to use with the "full cup" of pleasure and what I take DeWitt's "fullness" argument to mean. Yes you want your life to be 100% pleasure and 0% pain, and you want it to stay that way, neither needlessly below… -
Pacatus
Reaction (Post)July 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM […]
I think there is a lot of common ground to be found here!
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Epicurus cannot conceive of the good without active pleasures, just as we cannot conceive of a brick building without bricks.
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