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Bryan
June 25, 2026 at 10:14 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Todd’s post in the thread What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal?.[…]
That is probably true.
My point was more that "good" or "bad" have to be attached to concrete choices, not abstractions. Life is good (necessary) for experiencing pleasure. Death is bad for that, but it might be good if you only care about avoiding… -
Bryan
June 25, 2026 at 10:14 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Pacatus’s post in the thread What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal?.[…]
In thinking on this from Todd , I recalled (from Kurt Lampe’s The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life) that the same logic was attributed to a later Cyrenaic philosopher, Hegesias. Lampe refers to… -
Bryan
June 25, 2026 at 10:14 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Cassius’s post in the thread What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal?.[…]
I don't see it to be consistent with Epicurus either, but it IS a good illustration (apparently) of how someone can use persuasive logic and reach disastrously wrong conclusions.
And I think that's why Epicurus held that it is not necessary (or perhaps… -
Bryan
Reaction (Post)June 25, 2026 at 9:50 PM Here's more detailed publication:
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Don
Reaction (Post)June 25, 2026 at 9:29 PM Here's more detailed publication:
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TauPhi
June 25, 2026 at 9:22 PM Replied to the thread New Advancement on Reading Herculaneum Scrolls.PostHere's more detailed publication:
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Cassius
PostJune 25, 2026 at 8:07 PM Thanks wbernys you are right - I have fixed it now. -
Cassius
June 25, 2026 at 8:06 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to wbernys’s post in the thread What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Said To Him That The Value of Being Dead and Being Alive Are Equal?.Hey Cassius , did you use the wrong quote?
You're quoting my own quotation of Diogenes but then talking about logical argument about pleasure being the highest good. Unless I'm missing the point.
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