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Joshua
Reaction (Post)April 5, 2026 at 8:24 AM Wanted to share a great article other users may like by Orestis Karatzoglou, he makes a particularly strong point how will writing is so easily justified by the main principles of Epicurean Friendship and allows to feel more secure, in other words… -
Joshua
Reaction (Post)April 5, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The word in question in the manuscript is this above.
To my eye, it is clearly αρετη with a soft breathing mark at the α and an accent over the η at the end with a punctuation mark following.
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Don
April 5, 2026 at 8:17 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Joshua’s post in the thread Episode 327 - EATAQ 09 - Intelligent Design vs Emergence.[…]
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Don
April 5, 2026 at 8:05 AM Replied to the thread VS23 - Epicurus Reader Version.Post
The word in question in the manuscript is this above.
To my eye, it is clearly αρετη with a soft breathing mark at the α and an accent over the η at the end with a punctuation mark following.
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Cassius
Reaction (Post)April 5, 2026 at 7:16 AM Wanted to share a great article other users may like by Orestis Karatzoglou, he makes a particularly strong point how will writing is so easily justified by the main principles of Epicurean Friendship and allows to feel more secure, in other words… -
wbernys
April 5, 2026 at 1:37 AM Replied to the thread How can writing a will be justified in Epicureanism?.PostWanted to share a great article other users may like by Orestis Karatzoglou, he makes a particularly strong point how will writing is so easily justified by the main principles of Epicurean Friendship and allows to feel more secure, in other words… -
wbernys
Reaction (Post)April 5, 2026 at 1:19 AM Good to have you Lamar.
Couple of points:
1 - This is why I don't care to refer to "hedonism" very often. Epicurean philosophy gets placed into that box with certain other groups, but Epicurus is far more subtle than most, and so "hedonism" gets used as a… -
Cassius
ThreadApril 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM Welcome to Episode 328 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the most complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the… -
Cassius
April 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM Replied to the thread Is There A "Paradox of Hedonism"?.PostIt occurs to me to add here that in some of our physics discussions recently we have had reason to focus on the importance of "emergence" or "emergent qualities" to the nature of the way things are.
Probably friendship and love and the issues you are…
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