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This is my personal outline and interpretation of Epicurean philosophy: On the nature of reality 1. Nature, being the physical universe consisting of matter, energy, and void, is all that exists. The supernatural does not exist. 2. There are no gods, in the traditional religious sense of supernatural beings that interact with our universe. 3. The mind is an emergent function of the physical body, most importantly the brain. When the body dies and disintegrates, so does the mind. There is no afte…
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This is my understanding of prolepseis (anticipations) as per https://newepicurean.com/resou…ticipations-and-feelings/ In what sense do you think it is not correct?
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Instincts are similar forms of genetically transmitted knowledge (or perhaps it would be better to say behaviours). And little children appear to have a sense of fairness and justice that seems not to be learnt but innate.
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I would need to delve deeper into Epicurus' usage of prolepsis, but I cannot imagine he would have meant abstract ideas (conceptual reasoning). It seems unnecessary and unexpected to slap a word like prolepsis onto that. Let me just mention before I head to bed, that I consider the idea of the blank slate to be scientifically indefensible. My thinking on this matter has very much been formed by Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate. https://stevenpinker.com/publications/blank-slate https://www.te…
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(Quote from Cassius) I am pondering if there is a better way to phrase this. I certainly wouldn't want to suggest a Platonic understanding of disembodied ideas that exist in an ideal world. But what I am trying to get at in my statement #12, is that while there is no absolute morality, that doesn't mean every moral choice is equally valid, and that we cannot make any valid statements about morality (the typical "if you're an atheist and don't believe there is a god stopping you, why don't you go…
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(Quote from Hiram) Having thought a bit more about this, I think this could be related, yes. Has anyone else explored connections between Epicurus and Jung?
