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Epicurus, Kuriai Doxai, 23
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1. Horace, Sermones, 1.5.101 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.175, 1.197, 1.208, 1.210, 1.224, 1.255, 1.262, 1.319, 1.358, 1.407, 1.450, 1.465, 1.690-1.700, 3.830, 5.82, 5.1151-5.1160 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Seneca The Younger, Natural Questions, 7.32.2-7.32.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.54, 10.31-10.32, 10.139 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

7.54. The standard of truth they declare to be the apprehending presentation, i.e. that which comes from a real object – according to Chrysippus in the twelfth book of his Physics and to Antipater and Apollodorus. Boethus, on the other hand, admits a plurality of standards, namely intelligence, sense-perception, appetency, and knowledge; while Chrysippus in the first book of his Exposition of Doctrine contradicts himself and declares that sensation and preconception are the only standards, preconception being a general notion which comes by the gift of nature (an innate conception of universals or general concepts). Again, certain others of the older Stoics make Right Reason the standard; so also does Posidonius in his treatise On the Standard. 10.31. They reject dialectic as superfluous; holding that in their inquiries the physicists should be content to employ the ordinary terms for things. Now in The Canon Epicurus affirms that our sensations and preconceptions and our feelings are the standards of truth; the Epicureans generally make perceptions of mental presentations to be also standards. His own statements are also to be found in the Summary addressed to Herodotus and in the Sovran Maxims. Every sensation, he says, is devoid of reason and incapable of memory; for neither is it self-caused nor, regarded as having an external cause, can it add anything thereto or take anything therefrom. 10.32. Nor is there anything which can refute sensations or convict them of error: one sensation cannot convict another and kindred sensation, for they are equally valid; nor can one sensation refute another which is not kindred but heterogeneous, for the objects which the two senses judge are not the same; nor again can reason refute them, for reason is wholly dependent on sensation; nor can one sense refute another, since we pay equal heed to all. And the reality of separate perceptions guarantees the truth of our senses. But seeing and hearing are just as real as feeling pain. Hence it is from plain facts that we must start when we draw inferences about the unknown. For all our notions are derived from perceptions, either by actual contact or by analogy, or resemblance, or composition, with some slight aid from reasoning. And the objects presented to mad-men and to people in dreams are true, for they produce effects – i.e. movements in the mind – which that which is unreal never does. 10.139. [A blessed and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness [Elsewhere he says that the gods are discernible by reason alone, some being numerically distinct, while others result uniformly from the continuous influx of similar images directed to the same spot and in human form.]Death is nothing to us; for the body, when it has been resolved into its elements, has no feeling, and that which has no feeling is nothing to us.The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.
5. Epicurus, Letter To Herodotus, 38

6. Epicurus, Kuriai Doxai, 24, 35, 2



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adrastus Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
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ariston of alexandria Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
aristotle, philosophy devolving into commentary on Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
aspasius Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
authority, oral-traditional Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
authority, pagan sources, decline of non-intellectual authority in Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
authority Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
boethius of sidon Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
epicurus, on sensory perception Yona, Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire (2018) 143
epicurus and epicureans Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
herminus Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
kemp, jerome Yona, Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire (2018) 143
kyriae doxai (epicurus) Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
lejay, paul Yona, Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire (2018) 143
lucretius, on the nature of things Yona, Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire (2018) 143
lucretius Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
nicolaus of damascus Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
oral-traditional authority, decline of, in pagan sources Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
peripatetics Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
philosophy/philosophical schools, oral tradition, collapse of Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
reale, giovanni Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
schiesaro, alessandro Yona, Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire (2018) 143
seneca Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 189
sensory perception' Yona, Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire (2018) 143