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Last year we held a series of discussions on the DISCORD chat service where we went through the Norman Dewitt book on Epicurus by chapter. Planning for Upcoming Voice Chats on DeWitt's Epicurus and His Philosophy We reached Chapter 12 and though we didn't finish the full book, I thought the chats were pretty successful and worth finishing and doing again. In fact, they are worth doing over and over as a general introduction to the philosophy. This weekend it also occurred to me that even many of…

For the Lucretius discussion, let's plan to use the versions listed below: We will probably refer to several translations during the discussion so we can compare meanings of the difficult passages, but below is what I think we should use as the base. Two important caveats: (1) I think we should skip over the "poetic" versions in favor of the narrative translations, as the narratives are intended to be the most accurate and faithful to the original meaning, and (2) It will be best to use the publ…

Let's go ahead and schedule our next online book discussion session -- our next session will be on Chapter 12 - The new Hedonism. Julie has offered to prepare some discussion notes, and she needs time to do that, so let's schedule this for 11 AM eastern time on Sunday morning, September 1. If this is an unworkable time for you please let us know and we will try to coordinate the best time for as many people as possible. All are welcome, but Godfrey and Joshua , you guys in particular deserve a p…

Argh -- of course -- I changed it! thanks Joshua!