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The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics

Note 74 — Chapter XVII · THE EPICUREAN VIEWS ON NATURE.

Oswald J. (Oswald Joseph) Reichel translation

Diog. 66; Lucr. iii. 94; 136; 396; 612; Plut. Plac. iv. 4, 3. Lucretius calls the rational part animus or mens, and the irrational part anima. The statement, Pl. Phil. iv. 23, 2, that Epicurus made feeling reside in the organs of sense, because the ἡγεμονικὸν was feelingless, can hardly be correct. ↑

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