26-10-18

Sunday October 18, 2026 - Zoom Discussion 12:30 PM EST - Weekly Update And Lucretius Book Review (Transition To Lucretius Book 2)

1. Welcome and news / requests for new topics.
2. Round-Table What is On Your Mind About Epicurean Philosophy:
   1. This Week:
      1. Nate’s “Epicurean Paradox Of The Skeptics” Article
      2. Martin - Boeri book -
      3. Robert - Greenblatt book
      4. Patrikios - Encounter with Epicurus (Tau Phi’s PDF) - sort of like a few days in Athens -
      5. Kalosyni’s “Height of Pleasure” question. What is its relation to “intensity?”
   2. Last Week:
      1. Martin on Thomas More’s Utopia - More was a friend of Erasmus who was a major humanist. The names of the characters given by More are nonsensical/comedic. Erasmus was first to propose to derive an ethics from reason. (Dutch) who references a Christianized Epicureanism.
      2. Sanantoniogarden - interested in Epicurus’ circumstances / time period. 18 years old when Alexander died. Vesuvius Challenge - new sentence “everything is generated… VC3D ”
      3. Patrikiois - Epicurus’ Human Beings — Beyond Person and Self — surveying the actual people by what is in t he surviving letters.

• This week when we are ready we continue at https://epicurustoday.com/sbslucretius/#1-921 Every session let’s try to cover questions like:
  1. What is the context of this section?
  2. Why included at this point in the presentation?
  3. What are the major points Lucretius is making?
  4. What are the implications of these points?