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Julia
March 30, 2026 at 6:10 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread A Pattern I Observe In The Connection (Or Lack Thereof) Between Humanism And Epicurean Philosophy.My goal in the discussion of "Humanism" has been to generate "light" rather than "heat," but since the goal of life is "light" (pleasure), and not the avoidance of "heat" (pain), I have more to add. The accompanying graphic is not a "proof" of anything.… -
Julia
Reaction (Post)March 30, 2026 at 5:13 AM Selection_343.jpg I have never considered Epicurean philosophy to be a form of "Humanist" philosophy any more than it is a form of Stoicism or Platonism. I haven't written extensively on this, in part because many Humanists are allies on certain… -
Eikadistes
March 29, 2026 at 10:12 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Page259!.PostThanks, I've got it covered.
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Cassius
Reaction (Post)March 29, 2026 at 8:52 PM […]
Haha. It's official then. EpicureanFriends site has every resource on Epicurean philosophy in the universe. Including missing pages from books in form of its members!
Eikadistes I can see on your web site that you managed to find the missing English… -
TauPhi
March 29, 2026 at 8:04 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Page259!.Post[…]
Haha. It's official then. EpicureanFriends site has every resource on Epicurean philosophy in the universe. Including missing pages from books in form of its members!
Eikadistes I can see on your web site that you managed to find the missing English… -
Cassius
March 29, 2026 at 7:22 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Page259!.PostThat IS Weird! I have no idea why.... -
Eikadistes
March 29, 2026 at 6:08 PM Replied to the thread Welcome Page259!.Post... weirdly, I am missing page 259 in my copy of Obbink's translation of On Piety, which includes an English translation of column(s) 77A/77B, and after scouring the web, was lead here... -
Cassius
PostMarch 29, 2026 at 4:27 PM I'll post separately that it might seem that the title of this thread and terms like "downward causation" are technicalities irrelevant to day to day life. However I'd posit that having a conceptual model of how complex systems like human beings emerge… -
Patrikios
Reaction (Post)March 29, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Greetings, all! I published some thoughts about the limitations in our employment of the word "atomism" as an expression of ancient Epicurean particle physics. I'll admit that I might be splitting hairs here, and exploiting a post-structuralist… -
Patrikios
March 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Joshua’s post in the thread Episode 326 - EATAQ 08 - Who Cares About Infinite Divisibility? And Why?.
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