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Welcome to Episode 163 of Lucretius Today. This is a podcast dedicated to the poet Lucretius, who wrote "On The Nature of Things," the only complete presentation of Epicurean philosophy left to us from the ancient world. Each week we walk you through the Epicurean texts, and we discuss how Epicurean philosophy can apply to you today. If you find the Epicurean worldview attractive, we invite you to join us in the study of Epicurus at EpicureanFriends.com, where you will find a discussion thread f…

Thanks to Don for this very helpful article: Epicurean Prolepsis by David Glidden. https://orb.binghamton.edu/sagp/109/ I am reading that article now and it shoots at a lot of what seems generally accepted about anticipations. I read Glidden to agree with DeWitt in being very critical of Diogenes Laertius, but he is also critical of Cicero, on the grounds that both of them have too much Stoic influence. I like what I am reading so far. For example: (Quote)

This is particularly good too: (Quote)

Last night in our zoom session Godfrey reminded us that there is discussion of the issue of anticipations in the book recently released by the Athens Greece Epicurean group. We need to link here the discussion we have had previously.

It looks like the full article that Glidden wrote later is: Glidden, D. (1985), ‘Epicurean Prolepsis’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Until I can track that down I just want to again indicate my appreciation to Don because the article he found has already converted my views on this subject to Glidden's camp, which I had never read before today. It might be a good way to summarize it to say that Dewitt was right in not trusting Diogenes Laertius but he should not have trusted Cicero either!…

Added to the file archive here are: epicureanfriends.com/wcf/fileb…-prolepsis-david-glidden/ and epicureanfriends.com/wcf/fileb…onceptions-morel-konstan/

I am pasting here some private discussions that we have had in the last few days in preparation for this upcoming podcast, in which Don is going to join us. What follows are comments from several sources, noted with the author at the start: DON: In all seriousness, I'll put my cards on the table prior to the recording here. And I'm going to try and pin these to things I've read... however, I don't have the citations at hand. Thoughts are, of course, welcome! IF prolepseis are part of Canonic (cr…

I hope to have this episode released either later tonight or certainly tomorrow. I think our listeners are really going to enjoy this one and its detailed discussion of anticipations. As you listen, please think about these questions: 1 - Is a prolepsis/anticipation/preconception something that can be considered "True" or "false"? 2 - As to the statements apparently made by Epicurus as to the gods being blessed and incorruptble - are those statements themselves proplepses/anticipations/preconcep…

Episode 163 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. This week we continue in Chapter 8 of the DeWitt Book and continue also with our discussion of anticipations. This week Joshua is back and Don joins us as well and so we bring the full strength of our podcasting team to the topic spreaker.com/episode/52872279