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I was looking for a place to post the article referenced below, and then I realized that we do not have a subforum devoted to magnetism. We know more about Epicurean theory of magnetism than we do about Epicurean theory on a lot of other issues, given…
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Cassius
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM Replied to the thread Episode 303 - Is It Truly Impossible To Advocate For Epicurus In The Public Sphere?.PostI just posted an excerpt from something Joshua said in Episode 302 about pleasure ethics from Thomas Moore's Utopia, and another quote comes to mind which is on a related topic and which responds to Cicero's allegation that an Epicurean should not boast… -
Cassius
October 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM Replied to the thread Episode 302 - TD30 - Epicurus and Roads Paved With Good Intentions.PostIn this episode, one of the arguments that Joshua raised from Thomas Moore's "Utopia" in defense of Pleasure-based ethics deserves to be remembered. I'm therefore pasting this excerpt from the transcript with the important point underlined so it is… -
Cassius
PostOctober 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM Excellent thank you Joshua and Kalosyni! For anyone glancing through this thread, the link to Kalosynis post is an important one to follow. -
Cassius
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to Joshua’s post in the thread Episode 255 - Cotta Argues That Epicurean Gods Are As Despicable As Are Epicureans Themselves - CIcero's OTNOTG 30. -
Patrikios
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Kalosyni’s post in the thread 2022 Epicurus vs Buddhism Compare and Contrast Thread.[…]
There are within ancient Theravadin Buddhist texts - the Pali Sutta - certain passages which point to how conciousness is dependent on factors (Eye-consciousness: Arises dependent on the eye and visible forms. Ear-consciousness: Arises dependent on… -
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Reaction (Post)October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM Eikadistes
This thread is of great interest to me. I was involved in Buddhism, fairly seriously at one point, for more than a decade. It's what finally led me to Epicureanism: in a nutshell, I saw that Epicureanism contains many of the things I like… -
Patrikios
October 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Eikadistes’s post in the thread 2022 Epicurus vs Buddhism Compare and Contrast Thread.Huh ... I guess my brain is set to auto-update my file on the Dhammapada once a year.
Anyway, I came back to ask myself the exact opposite question, for an unrelated reason, and I came across these verses that strike me as being very "epicurean" in tone:
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Patrikios
October 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Eikadistes’s post in the thread 2022 Epicurus vs Buddhism Compare and Contrast Thread.Incidentally, I am re-reading parts of the Dhammapada, and I am reminded how antithetical many of the propositions in ancient Buddhist scriptures are to Epicurean Philosophy. We do find similarities in the evaluation of mindfulness, the importance of … -
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Don gave already a good answer, but OK, here is my answer:
The space with properties (field) is a kind of "Epicurean void", and there is space in-between particles, which is empty almost everywhere most of the time under typical circumstances on…
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