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Welcome to Episode Nine of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who lived in the age of Julius Caesar and wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. I am your host Cassius, and together with my panelists from the EpicureanFriends.com forum, we'll walk you through the six books of Lucretius' poem, and discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. Be aware that none of us are p…

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Thank you Eugenios -- "grudging" is surely in line with most of those other terms (except for Martin Ferguson Smith who apparently didn't like the idea ) I am not sure I am with you though on what you think it means. You included "wanting" in your list, and to me that means "insufficient" or "inadequate" but the other terms (greedy, envious) imply something different - at least to me. Envious, greedy, grudging, all carry (to me) the implication that there is some force/entity that is deliberatel…

I agree that's probably the best interpretation (You're lacking something you want, something you feel that you deserve), but I think this is one of those areas that we can sense a perspective that is different from ours, so we need to be on guard that we don't just unthinkingly presume an answer that might not be exactly what Lucretius/Epicurus was saying.

Received a comment today on this episode from a listener in Europe (via google translate): Cassius, I listened to Lucretius podcast 9. There is a debate about how to convince people who don't want to trust their senses. The Flemish philosopher Maarten Boudry has an interesting view on this. He says that there are people who do not want to know something. There are lovers who promise each other loyalty and also say, if you were unfaithful, I don't want to know. There are people who carry cancer g…