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  • Godfrey April 21, 2026 at 12:30 AM

    Reacted with Like to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Happy Twentieth of April 2026.
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    Happy Twentieth Everyone! :)

  • wbernys April 20, 2026 at 11:49 PM

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    Happy Twentieth Everyone! :)

  • Bryan April 20, 2026 at 11:47 PM

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    I haven't had time to look at this but may be relevant to Lucretius references:



    https://www.recherche.uliege.be/cms/c_20650757…yrus-from-cairo

  • Eikadistes April 20, 2026 at 10:49 PM

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    And I would not hesitate to say that this is both (1) an example of regression in philosophy over 2000 years and (2) why I would be cautious about endorsing Bentham or applying the label of "hedonism" to Epicurus overbroadly. Epicurus was firm that…

  • wbernys April 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM

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    I’m reading a book called Jane Austen’s Philosophy of Virtues. Emsley writes, “Socrates calls this kind of adherence to principle illusory, and suggests that it is actually a kind of self-indulgence that forces one to be temperate for the sake of later…

  • wbernys April 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM

    Reacted with Like to Cassius’s post in the thread Welcome ReiWolfWoman!.
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    I think that's a very good question and the answer isn't obvious at all.

    To me, some of what you're commentin on is a variation of the "psychological hedonism" argument which goes - everyone does what they think brings them pleasure, even pursuing virtue…

  • Cassius April 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM

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    I think that's a very good question and the answer isn't obvious at all.

    To me, some of what you're commentin on is a variation of the "psychological hedonism" argument which goes - everyone does what they think brings them pleasure, even pursuing virtue…

  • Cassius April 20, 2026 at 6:48 PM

    Reacted with Like to ReiWolfWoman’s post in the thread Welcome ReiWolfWoman!.
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    I’m reading a book called Jane Austen’s Philosophy of Virtues. Emsley writes, “Socrates calls this kind of adherence to principle illusory, and suggests that it is actually a kind of self-indulgence that forces one to be temperate for the sake of later…

  • kochiekoch April 20, 2026 at 5:16 PM

    Reacted with Like to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Happy Twentieth of April 2026.
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    Happy Twentieth Everyone! :)

  • ReiWolfWoman April 20, 2026 at 5:12 PM

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    I’m reading a book called Jane Austen’s Philosophy of Virtues. Emsley writes, “Socrates calls this kind of adherence to principle illusory, and suggests that it is actually a kind of self-indulgence that forces one to be temperate for the sake of later…

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