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Martin
Reaction (Post)October 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM Yet another turn in the road of life and I find Epicurus and the Sages have already been here and offer a salve.
"I spit upon the beautiful and those who vainly admire it, when it does not produce any pleasure"
As I navigate a very amicable separation and… -
Lowri834
Reaction (Post)October 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM Yet another turn in the road of life and I find Epicurus and the Sages have already been here and offer a salve.
"I spit upon the beautiful and those who vainly admire it, when it does not produce any pleasure"
As I navigate a very amicable separation and… -
Adrastus
October 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM Posted the thread Spitting Upon the Beautiful....ThreadYet another turn in the road of life and I find Epicurus and the Sages have already been here and offer a salve.
"I spit upon the beautiful and those who vainly admire it, when it does not produce any pleasure"
As I navigate a very amicable separation and… -
Novem
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Don’s post in the thread Should Epicureans Celebrate Something Else Instead of Celebrating Halloween?.I will admit I didn't read this entire thread, but that's never slowed me down before.
Traditions like Halowe'en, Samhain, and El Dia de la Muertos have to do (in part) with remembering the dead and breaking down the barrier between the living and the… -
Kalosyni
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Adrastus’s post in the thread Do you believe in psychological hedonism/egoism? Any philosophers on this?.I generally don't discuss hedonism with adults, but my children are wonderful little hedonistic philosophers, especially with the sort of body-focused ethics that they are taught in their school.
My daughter (7 years old) came up with an interesting… -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)October 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM […]
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Dreams are real in the sense that they happen to us but what we dream about does not automatically become true in Epicurean system. 'I imagined it therefore it is' is not compatible because it's a simplification that can easily produce errors. For… -
Kalosyni
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Eikadistes’s post in the thread Reasoning through the Letter to Menoeceus' On the Gods.Here's how I read Herodotos — all images are "real", because all images are made of particles, and all particles have a source in nature. I read this to mean that we cannot imagine an image that has not been impressed upon or apprehended by us. We… -
Godfrey
Reaction (Post)October 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM My current understanding of the issue is as follows. Feel free to point out any problems you see with my line of thinking.
Non-evident things must be proved by means of apparent things. To do this, confirmatory testimony and lack of contrary testimony is… -
Godfrey
October 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Eikadistes’s post in the thread Should Epicureans Celebrate Something Else Instead of Celebrating Halloween?.[…]
I see where you're coming from, but consider the Memento Mori visualized by Epicureans — images of death (like the skeleton mosaics) are historically on-brand when it comes to Epicurean mortality.
Celebrating mortality, in that regard, is also a… -
Godfrey
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Adrastus’s post in the thread Do you believe in psychological hedonism/egoism? Any philosophers on this?.I generally don't discuss hedonism with adults, but my children are wonderful little hedonistic philosophers, especially with the sort of body-focused ethics that they are taught in their school.
My daughter (7 years old) came up with an interesting…
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