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Eikadistes
February 20, 2026 at 11:51 AM Replied to the thread Episode 321 - EATAQ 03 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science.PostMy man!
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Cassius
February 20, 2026 at 10:43 AM Replied to the thread Episode 321 - EATAQ 03 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science.PostEpisode 321 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. This week our episode is entitled: "The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science"
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Cassius
February 20, 2026 at 9:23 AM Replied to the thread Episode 321 - EATAQ 03 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science.PostCurrent Link to Cosmos Episode 7 - Backbone of the Night - Attacking the Socratic/Platonic abandonment of the study of Nature (mentioned in this episode of the podcast)
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Kalosyni
February 20, 2026 at 9:20 AM Posted the thread Happy Twentieth of February 2026!.Thread
Happy Twentieth Everyone!
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Cassius
February 19, 2026 at 1:54 PM Replied to the thread Episode 321 - EATAQ 03 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science.PostThis will deserve its own thread - Socrates' "Second Sailing" and its implications from the Epicurean perspective.
An Analogy That Should Life Forever In Infamy Along With His Ridiculous "Cave" - Socrates' "Second Sailing" -
Cassius
ThreadFebruary 19, 2026 at 1:52 PM Carl Sagan's "Backbone of the Night" episode has me wanting to pursue further the condemnation of Socrates and Plato for deprecating the study of natural philosophy. Here's some initial research into a term apparently that is a key part of that terrible… -
Cassius
February 19, 2026 at 1:23 PM Replied to the thread Critique of the Control Dichotomy as a Useful Strategy.Post[…]
It appears that many Stoics are comfortable saying that they have no concerns about life and health. For my part I'd say that unless you have life and at least some degree of health, no happiness is possible.
This is an unbridgeable divide. The… -
Matteng
February 19, 2026 at 12:03 PM Replied to the thread Critique of the Control Dichotomy as a Useful Strategy.PostFound this Stoic text which claims that the dichotomy leads to undisturbable happiness.
The main point is that when you desire no things outside of your control ( like life, health … ) you encounter no „unhappiness“ or when you desire only Virtue… -
Kalosyni
February 19, 2026 at 10:07 AM Replied to the thread What kinds of goals do Epicureans set for themselves?.PostIt might be good think about goals for an Epicurean through the framework of lifestages. In modern psychology Erik Erikson and others have presented ideas of lifestages.
I am posting a table of lifestages categories - we could then see if we can compare… -
Eikadistes
February 19, 2026 at 8:41 AM Replied to the thread "Prayer" vs "Choice and Avoidance".Post[…]
Philódēmos records Epíkouros of having written that "it is fitting for us to pray’". In On Piety, he affirms that their opponents observed the Epicureans to share "propitious offerings and sincere and sonorous prayers" to the gods. So, even then, the… -
Kalosyni
February 18, 2026 at 10:22 AM Replied to the thread "Prayer" vs "Choice and Avoidance".PostHere is an interesting article from the Psychology Today website, and which would be related to the topic of "Epicurean choice and avoidance"...
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Read the full article here:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-pra…resourcefulness -
Cassius
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 AM Posted the thread New Graphic: Epicurus vs. Other Major Philosophies.ThreadI have now expanded the old comparison chart we had on the forum through the use of Claude AI to include columns for the Socratics and the Aristotelians. For the new additions I haven't checked each of the sources that that are listed for each point on… -
Cassius
February 17, 2026 at 8:52 AM Replied to the thread A Full Comparison of Epicurus vs Aristotle.PostI am going to update the master comparison table (which at present is oriented toward comparing with Stoicism and repost it shortly. I will add Aristotle and also the Socratics. -
Kalosyni
February 17, 2026 at 8:07 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.Post -
Kalosyni
February 17, 2026 at 7:56 AM Posted the thread A Full Comparison of Epicurus vs Aristotle.ThreadI want to set up this thread as a place to do an overall comparison between Epicurus and Aristotle.
Cassius do we have a table of comparison somewhere already?
Here is an interesting historical snippet from Reddit answering the question "Did Epicurus… -
Cassius
February 17, 2026 at 4:05 AM Replied to the thread Happy Birthday General Thread.PostHappy Birthday to SillyApe! Learn more about SillyApe and say happy birthday on SillyApe's timeline: SillyApe -
Joshua
February 17, 2026 at 2:21 AM Replied to the thread Sunday February 14, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 159.Post -
Robert
February 16, 2026 at 11:29 PM Replied to the thread Sunday February 14, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 159.Post[…]
Thank you, Joshua! How familiar do you think More might have been with Epicurus? His argument seems almost a direct response to the position expressed in PD34 and elsewhere. -
kochiekoch
February 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM Replied to the thread The dark Epicureanism in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.PostFrom what you write, Fitzgeralds Rubaiyat sounds more Cyrenaic than Epicurean or, I'll bet Sufi.
A more Victorian Skeptic view than what Omar Khayyam actually wrote? -
Cassius
February 16, 2026 at 7:02 PM Posted the thread New Decision Tree: Are You On Team Epicurus?.ThreadI've prepared a new page to make it easier for browsers of the page to identify to what extent they fit with Epicurean Philosophy. This is a first draft which will change, but it's already in usable form. This stems primarily from the recent material… -
DaveT
February 16, 2026 at 4:28 PM Replied to the thread 16th Panhellenic Epicurus Seminar In Athens Greece - February 14, 2026.PostCassius Thank you. -
DaveT
February 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM Replied to the thread "Prayer" vs "Choice and Avoidance".Post[…]
I can agree with your statement as a goal of praying. As I think about it, Christians probably pray mostly to ask divine intervention of some sort.
For example John 16:23–24 The New King James Version
"23 And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most… -
Kalosyni
February 16, 2026 at 4:21 PM Replied to the thread The dark Epicureanism in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.PostIt is important to see that there are a number of differences between Epicurean philosophy and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam...and the Rubaiyat takes a dark and pessimistic tone.
Labeling Epicurean philosophy as pessimistic is incorrect (rebuttal to post… -
Godfrey
February 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM Replied to the thread "Prayer" vs "Choice and Avoidance".PostMy understanding of prayer is pretty much limited to the idea of praying to someone/something that has power to intervene and grant something to someone. In this sense it is similar to talking. However, somewhere along the line I heard someone refer to… -
Kalosyni
February 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM Replied to the thread The dark Epicureanism in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.PostI just found a second book in the attic! (published in 1937 with illustrations by Edmund Dulac).
I asked Google the following question:
Did Edward Fitzgerald make mistakes when he translated the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam?
AI Overview:
Yes, Edward FitzGerald… -
Cassius
February 16, 2026 at 8:50 AM Replied to the thread 16th Panhellenic Epicurus Seminar In Athens Greece - February 14, 2026.PostThe Youtube translation to English works fairly well, so I will update the first post in this thread with links to the individual presentations as I find them. If you've already watched the video and know where any of these are, please add to the thread… -
Kalosyni
February 16, 2026 at 8:19 AM Posted the thread "Prayer" vs "Choice and Avoidance".ThreadIn yesterday's Zoom a topic came up (very briefly and not in any detail) that could be very rich and also in need of exploration...prayer.
I don't think we have any direct evidence of prayer by Epicurus, and since he was a materialist perhaps he did not… -
Cassius
February 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM Replied to the thread Sunday February 14, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 159.Post[…]
So at least partially at the feet of the Socratic-Pythagorean axis and their deprecation of "natural science" we can lay the charge that they held back one of the greatest engineering minds of the ancient world from further practical discoveries.
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Joshua
February 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM Replied to the thread Sunday February 14, 2026 - Zoom Meeting - Lucretius Book Review - Starting Book One Line 159.Post[…]
From the same work of Plutarch linked above:
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Cassius
February 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM Replied to the thread Episode 321 - EATAQ 03 - The Epicurean Criticism of Socrates For Denouncing Natural Science.PostIt's beginning to be clear that the Socratic position mentioned by Diogenes of Oinoanda as being opposed to the study of natural science constitute a major bright line division between them and Epicurus. Apparently that same distinction did not…
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