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"What Epicurus made war upon ... concepts as black as hell..."

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The issue of completeness and perfection was of great concern to the ancient Greeks, and we aren't going to understand what Epicurus had to say about pleasure as the supreme good unless we understand how Epicurus met the Platonic objection that pleasure is never complete. Here's an article with key citations from Plato, Seneca, and Cicero to illustrate what their objection was, and how Epicurus met it. In sum, the issue comes down to whether you think only "complete" things are good, or whether you acknowledge the goodness both of things that are complete and the things that make up complete things. Just as in physics both the atoms and the things made of atoms are real, in ethics both pleasure as a concept and pleasure as individual experiences are good.
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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 345 Is Now Available - "We Can't Find True And Complete Happiness Unless We Know What True and Complete Happiness Is" - https://t.co/29TPGebzOp

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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 344 is Now Available - What Is The Mind's Role In Determining Truth? https://t.co/aUHRPK0ZoB

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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 343 Is Now Available: "In The Search For Knowledge, is 'Probable' Good Enough?"
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Living For The Pleasures Of The Moment Isn't Epicurean — It's Lunacy: Why the World's Most Famous "Hedonist" Would Have Despised What We Call Hedonism

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This is my latest post on the issue of whether Pleasure is the true supreme good in Epicurean philosophy, or whether that goal is something else. This is an important issue that is being incorporated into the editorial policy for posts at EpicureanFriends.

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Episode 342 of the Lucretius Today Podcast Is Now Available: "Were Our Minds Designed To Be Good At Pursuing Knowledge?" https://t.co/xANrd1ZWm4

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Episode 341 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available: "Is It True That No One Dies For A Lie?
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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 340 - "The Fatal Flaw In Socratic Skepticism" is now available. https://t.co/5iMl370Vo2

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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 339 - "Stoic Views of Knowledge And The Emperor's New Clothes" is now available https://t.co/0SqxCJyYTY

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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 338 Is Now Available - "Are Knowledge And Wisdom Available Only To Gods?" https://t.co/hkBRVDurL2

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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 337 Is Now Available - "Confidence In Knowledge And The Epicurean Attitude Toward Pascals Wager" https://t.co/tc4eqJ4pZW

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Living For Pleasure, Or Dying For Relief From Pain? https://t.co/wJDugRIM0r

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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 336 Is Now Available: "A Coherent Whole Or An Arbitrary Mess - The Necessity of The Study of Nature and Knowledge In Addition To Ethics" https://t.co/GMUl893rOI

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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 335 Is Now Available - "Epicurean Analysis Of Stoic Claims About Notions And Memory" https://t.co/dYYRz55B6R

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Lucretius Today Podcast Episode 334 Is Now Available - "Further Epicurean Analysis Of The Problems With Stoic Kataleptic Impressions" https://t.co/ko4kfceI9o

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"Why It Is Incorrect to Say Epicurean Philosophy Is Primarily About 'Absence of Pain'" - The question of how to characterize Epicurean philosophy is a very old one, with parallels to the way we choose to consider some cups half-full or half-empty. The choice of perspective is important. https://t.co/CFrzhxe4bx