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Don
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 8:06 AM […]
Thanks for this point, Don. Antiparatattesthai is markedly military language, evoking a battle line and the presence of an enemy. It derives from paratattein, which refers to arranging battle lines. Antiparatattesthai is perhaps best translated as… -
Don
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 8:06 AM […]
Thanks for this idea. Although I largely agree with Cassius just below, it's good that you raised this, because one of the biggest developments in 20th-century scholarship on Epicurus was less attention paid to PD 9. I don't mean to necessarily say… -
Max DuBoff
July 3, 2026 at 7:50 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Max Duboff.Post[…]
Thanks for this idea. Although I largely agree with Cassius just below, it's good that you raised this, because one of the biggest developments in 20th-century scholarship on Epicurus was less attention paid to PD 9. I don't mean to necessarily say… -
Max DuBoff
July 3, 2026 at 7:33 AM Replied to the thread Welcome Max Duboff.Post[…]
Thanks for this point, Don. Antiparatattesthai is markedly military language, evoking a battle line and the presence of an enemy. It derives from paratattein, which refers to arranging battle lines. Antiparatattesthai is perhaps best translated as… -
Max DuBoff
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 7:28 AM […]
Slight quibble: he didn't write that his mental pleasures outweighed the physical pains, but he did write that he could contend with his pains with the mental pleasure of his memories: ἀντιπαρετάττετο "metaphorical, hold one's ground… -
Elli
PostJuly 3, 2026 at 4:43 AM […]
I have read this quote in a post of a friend, who claimed that said by Epicurus, but this is fake!
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Elli
PostJuly 3, 2026 at 4:26 AM Plutarch was not a neutral observer. He was a priest of the Delphic priesthood, an ideological guardian of the Platonic and religious establishment. When he could not refute Epicurus philosophically, he resorted to ad hominem attacks, moralistic slander,… -
Martin
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 3:50 AM Ηello to all epicurean friends,
Dear Raphael, sorry but your whole text is a measurement of turmoil, not pleasure. You count taxes, cost of living, politics, technology, decline, demographics, robots, migration, feminism, MGTOW, Schopenhauer, Augustus,… -
Martin
Reaction (Post)July 3, 2026 at 3:48 AM Epicurus’ Political Revolution Without Bloodshed
In On the Education of Children, Plutarch begins with a series of “moral” recommendations that Epicurus would immediately classify as empty beliefs. These are external social norms that have nothing to… -
Martin
July 3, 2026 at 3:44 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread Rebuttal to a Stoic who stated that "flourishing" would be a "better" goal of life than Pleasure.Thank you Matt. We have had a very good team of people rotate through over the years, and I am convinced that the material there is some of the best we produce. I've now gotten most all of them converted over into text transcripts which are all…
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