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  • Kalosyni November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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    As I was listening to an audio recording of De Rerum Natura last week when sick in bed, this section cheered me up:

    De Rerum Natura, Book 2, section 142 (Humphries translation):

    When dawn bathes earth with morning light, and birds,

    All kinds of them,…

  • Don November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM

    Replied to the thread An Epicurus Tartan.
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    And LAST one, promise, Epicurus Ancient:

    Ancient - The Ancient color palette is meant to simulate older plant dyes, which would generally come out lighter in color. In the tartan cloth, the following colors (as defined in the tartans' thread count) have…

  • Don November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM

    Replied to the thread An Epicurus Tartan.
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    Okay, now I'm obsessed ^^ so I decided to try some variation on the "Epicurus Tartan." Here is the tartan in a Weathered (or "Reproduction") Palette. You'll note that the sett is the same (the thread count and order) but the specific colors themselves have…

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM

    Replied to the thread Welcome AUtc!.
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    Please welcome AUtC who tells me:



    Hello, I would like to learn more about Epicureanism. I want to talk to others that are also interested in the same things. I have no background or deep education on Epicurean, other than what I have read online in a…

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM

    Posted the thread Welcome AUtc!.
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    Welcome AUtC !

    There is one last step to complete your registration:

    All new registrants must post a response to this message here in this welcome thread (we do this in order to minimize spam registrations).

    You must post your response within 24 hours,…

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM

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    As for me personally this may be why i think the word "Quasi" always sounds fake or negative:

    kll, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasimodo

  • Patrikios November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM

    Replied to the thread Gassendi On Happiness.
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    Cassius Thanks for that analysis as you read through those 70 pages on #Happiness. I liked how Gassendi gives some added perspective on dealing with pain.

    […]



    This describes how we should prepare mentally for difficulties *before* they arrive.…

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM

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    Eikadistes thank you for all that commentary!

    I don't disagree with any of it but would mention only slight tone question as to "quasi." In my mind that word for some reason carries a negative connotation that evokes space ghosts, but I don't think what…

  • Eikadistes November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM

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    I respectfully believe that the original quote creates a misconception about the nature of "divine simulacra" by mistakenly equating the words "eidola" with "divine images": eidola are not necessarily "divine", most are just the mundane images we see…

  • Eikadistes November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM

    Replied to the thread An Epicurus Tartan.
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    That's awesome! Very cool idea.

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM

    Replied to the thread Gassendi On Happiness.
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    So Francois Bernier is the person to whom we owe so much here for access to this material:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bernier



    Bernier abridged and translated the philosophical writings of his friend Pierre Gassendi from Latin into French.…

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM

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    Page 425

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM

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  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM

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    Clear evidence of Gassendi letting his religion get in the way of his reasoning:

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM

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    Gassendi seems to specifically repudiate Epicurus on the swerve and liberty, leading up to this statement:

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM

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    Page 405 -

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM

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  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM

    Replied to the thread Gassendi On Virtue.
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    On page 362 there is a discussion of Theophrastus taking the position that it is ok to lie for a friend because friendship is the higher priority. I'm not sure that I have seen where Epicurus commented on that kind of apparent conflict between…

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM

    Replied to the thread Gassendi On Virtue.
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    On page 347 under Virtue I see this paragraph which appears in the midst of a section on Epicurean views of friendship. but seems to deviate what i understand to be the standard understanding that Epicurus took the position that friends should NOT hold…

  • Kalosyni November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM

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    Starting this thread for textual excerpts that express upbeat, optimistic, and/or joyful feelings...

    Diogenes Laertius, book 10, excerpt:

    "Also that in his letters he wrote to Leontion, "O Lord Apollo, my dear little Leontion, with what tumultuous applause…

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM

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    Note: This will be the thread to post about Gassendi's commentary on Epicurus from the "Liberty" section of his 1699 Three Discourses On Happiness - Virtue - Liberty.



    An example of info on Epicurus from page 394:

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM

    Posted the thread Gassendi On Virtue.
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    Note: This will be the thread to post about Gassendi's commentary on Epicurus from the "Virtue" section of his 1699 Three Discourses On Happiness - Virtue - Liberty.

    Some PDF page references:
    Virtue; 177
    Stoics; 184
    Epicurus on Following Nature; 209
    …

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM

    Replied to the thread Gassendi On Happiness.
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    The PDF at Archive.org that you've found Tau Phi contains the full book and therefore considerable commentary on Epicurus under both the topics of Virtue and Liberty (Virtue i know because I've now glanced at most of it; Liberty I am presuming.).

    This is…

  • TauPhi November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM

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    Pierre Gassendi lived and worked in the 17th century. This is historically very important period for the revival of Epicureanism as the philosophy started to get some traction again but at that time everything got filtered through Christianity.…

  • ernesto.sun November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM

    Replied to the thread Welcome Ernesto-Sun!.
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    Hello friends!

    So grateful to know You are well active in the name of the greatest philosopher of all time.

    Viva Epikouros!

    I want to mention why it is I am inactive still and for a while longer. Because a) real garden and building work, and b) listening to…

  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM

    Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.
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  • Cassius November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM

    Replied to the thread Gassendi On Happiness.
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    Thank you Tau Phi this will be extremely helpful!

    As a test I decided to look for the original version of whatever was used to generate this part, which occurs on page 21 right before the beginning of the section entitled "How Epicurus and Aristippus…

  • TauPhi November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM

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    Proper English translation from 1699 containing 'Happiness':

    https://archive.org/details/bim_ea…e_1699/mode/2up

    Transcription of the book (not perfect but workable - click 'View entire text' to see the whole book):

    …

  • Cassius November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM

    Replied to the thread Gassendi On Happiness.
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    I haven't had time to pursue this further but my current thought is that much of the usefulness of this presentation is going to turn on the extent to which we can verify that this modernization is consistent with the original text. On first look I…

  • kochiekoch November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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    The Stoics and Christians would say that close only works in horseshoes and hand grenades! 😉

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