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- Welcome and news / requests for new topics.
- Please help us stay on topic.
- Every session let’s try to cover questions like:
- What is the context of this section?
- Why included at this point in the presentation?
- What are the major points Lucretius is making?
- What are the implications of these points?
- Notes on New Topics / Announcements
- Last week we discussed:
- ERRORS of the great men greatly fallen:
- 1 Lack of void
- 2 Infinite divisibility of atoms
- 3 they have no minimum parts bodies and space
- 4 - They have proposed fundamentals that are mortal and can perish
- 5 - Also critiquing the monists (all are saying only one thing)
- This week we will continue with Lucretius Book 1:645.
- Sophistry discussion - Protagorus and Epicurus’s atitude toward him. Also Pythagorus -
- Visible elements can’t be first bodies since what we see is changing.
- In terms of being happy::
- is happiness real or an illusion?
- if man is the measure of all things, are we totally in control of whether we are happy? or is there any “outside” aspect? Does a tree falling in a forest when no one is around make a sound?
