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Matteng
December 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Daniel188’s post in the thread My personal, cursory interpretation of Epicurus. Please feel free to correct me..[…]
I will try to get this book. Thank you.
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I agree. My perspective is that you can't have ataraxia without pleasure. In his letter to Menoiceus, Epicurus states that there are only two feelings: pain and pleasure. If we eliminate pain, we automatically… -
Kalosyni
December 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM Commented on the video How The Wise Epicurean Is Always Happy?.Comment (Image/Video)Cassius is there a transcript of this video to read? -
Daniel188
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Matteng
Reaction (Post)December 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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… -
Matteng
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Cassius’s post in the thread "The Eyes Cannot Discover The Nature of Things" (Lucretius 4:379).I came across the statement quoted above in Book 4 of Lucretius which is relevant to the way we discuss the role of reason in relation to the senses. At least in my own case I need to emphasize this point more during our discussions:
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Matteng
December 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Good Website for Self-Help and Learning Coping Skills (dealing with depression etc.).I happened upon this and wanted to share...have not read all the entries, but some aspects seem compatible to Epicureanism...looks to be helpful toward removing severe mental pains:
https://nowmattersnow.org/learn-skills/
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Lowri834
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Daniel188’s post in the thread My personal, cursory interpretation of Epicurus. Please feel free to correct me..Hello everyone!
I'm writing this post to correct some of my views on Epicureanism. I'll list some of my interpretations here and hope that others will look at them and critique them to point out any errors. I won't claim to have a thorough understanding…
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