26-02-25

Wednesday 02-25-26 - EpicureanFriends Zoom Meeting

• Welcome (Make Any Suggestions For Additions to Agenda Here)

• Review Of Latest Forum Posts and New Participants

  • Mctimkat

• Review of Recent Events

  • We’ll start new series of Key Quotes
  • In future we may do the same thing for the Comparison Chart

• Tonight: The Central Importance of Studying Nature

  • longest book by Epicurus is 37 Books On Nature.
  • natural science probably includes how the senses work (?)
  • the issue of what happens if anything after death
  • removing all irrational fear (not just gods and death)
  • understanding of pain and pleasure operation
  • Fear of the unknown is as strong as fear of the supernatural
  • ability to respond to impostors such as Alexander the Oracle-Monger
  • There is something else in Lucretius where he says that knowing a little can be worse than nothing.
  • Alexander Pope - little learning is a dangerous thing
  • Fix the Diogenes of Oinoanda reference
  • So you don’t fall prey to hard derterminism

• We will return to Epicurea Discussion when Bryan Returns

  • Epicurea Discussion - start U220- page Page 882 - Being Cultured Is Not Necessary For Philosophy add a ! here [[EPICUREA 2026 -01.pdf]]