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Single Idea 1831
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
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Full Idea
Even though he lose his eyes, a wise man should still partake of life.
Gist of Idea
Wise men should partake of life even if they go blind
Source
report of Epicurus (fragments/reports [c.289 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.26
Book Ref
Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.467
The
46 ideas
from 'fragments/reports'
2670
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Epicurus despises and laughs at the whole of dialectic
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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1484
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We should say nothing of the whole if our contact is with the parts
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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21668
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Epicurus rejected excluded middle, because accepting it for events is fatalistic
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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21676
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Epicureans say disjunctions can be true whiile the disjuncts are not true
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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1822
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Reason can't judge senses, as it is based on them
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1482
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If two people disagree over taste, who is right?
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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1823
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We can't seek for things if we have no idea of them
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1824
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To name something, you must already have an idea of what it is
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1483
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Bath water is too hot for some, too cold for others
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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1820
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The criteria of truth are senses, preconceptions and passions
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1821
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Sensations cannot be judged, because similar sensations have equal value, and different ones have nothing in common
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1843
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Friendship is by far the most important ingredient of a complete and happy life
[Epicurus]
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2668
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Epicurus says if one of a man's senses ever lies, none of his senses should ever be believed
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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4549
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Epicurus denied knowledge in order to retain morality or hedonism as the highest values
[Nietzsche on Epicurus]
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1487
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When entering a dark room it is colourless, but colour gradually appears
[Epicurus]
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14526
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The rational soul is in the chest, and the non-rational soul is spread through the body
[Epicurus]
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6035
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Soul is made of four stuffs, giving warmth, rest, motion and perception
[Epicurus, by Aetius]
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2639
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Some say Epicurus only pretended to believe in the gods, so as not to offend Athenians
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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14527
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If god answered prayers we would be destroyed, because we pray for others to suffer
[Epicurus]
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6018
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Epicurus was the first to see the free will problem, and he was a libertarian
[Epicurus, by Long/Sedley]
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20922
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Epicurus showed that the swerve can give free motion in the atoms
[Epicurus, by Diogenes of Oen.]
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1909
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How can pleasure or judgement occur in a heap of atoms?
[Sext.Empiricus on Epicurus]
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7814
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It was Epicurus who made the question of the will's freedom central to ethics
[Epicurus, by Grayling]
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3562
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Fine things are worthless if they give no pleasure
[Epicurus]
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1840
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Pleasure is the chief good because it is the most natural, especially for animals
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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3557
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The end for Epicurus is static pleasure
[Epicurus, by Annas]
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1839
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Pains of the soul are worse than pains of the body, because it feels the past and future
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1842
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Pleasures only differ in their duration and the part of the body affected
[Epicurus]
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1845
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Justice has no independent existence, but arises entirely from keeping contracts
[Epicurus]
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1841
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We choose virtue because of pleasure, not for its own sake
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1829
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A wise man would be happy even under torture
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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1831
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Wise men should partake of life even if they go blind
[Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius]
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12044
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Only Epicurus denied purpose in nature, for the whole world, or for its parts
[Epicurus, by Annas]
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20907
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Democritus says atoms have size and shape, and Epicurus added weight
[Epicurus, by Ps-Plutarch]
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21669
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Atoms don't swerve by being struck, because they move in parallel, so the swerve is uncaused
[Cicero on Epicurus]
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21680
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What causes atomic swerves? Do they draw lots? What decides the size or number of swerves?
[Cicero on Epicurus]
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14525
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Stoics say time is incorporeal and self-sufficient; Epicurus says it is a property of properties of things
[Epicurus]
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2637
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For Epicureans gods are made of atoms, and are not eternal
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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2633
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Epicurus saw that gods must exist, because nature has imprinted them on human minds
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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22733
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Epicurus accepted God in his popular works, but not in his writings on nature
[Epicurus, by Sext.Empiricus]
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13291
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Slavery to philosophy brings true freedom
[Epicurus]
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22758
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Philosophy aims at a happy life, through argument and discussion
[Epicurus]
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14523
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We should come to philosophy free from any taint of culture
[Epicurus]
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14516
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There is no necessity to live with necessity
[Epicurus]
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22240
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The aim of medicine is removal of sickness, and philosophy similarly removes our affections
[Epicurus]
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5949
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Epicurus says colours are relative to the eye, not intrinsic to bodies
[Epicurus, by Plutarch]
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