Question

Answer the following about Epicurus’s Epistle to Herodotus, for 10 points each.
[10m] The Epistle, like all of Epicurus’s fully extant works, is preserved in Book X of the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by this 3rd-century biographer of Greek philosophers.
ANSWER: Diogenes Laërtius (“die-AW-juh-neez lay-URR-shee-uss”) [prompt on Diogenes]
[10e] In the Epistle, Epicurus reaffirms his belief that all bodies are composed of these indivisible components, a belief he got from Nausiphanes (“naw-SIFF-uh-neez”), who learned it from Democritus.
ANSWER: atoms [or atomon]
[10h] Original Greek term required. The Epistle also contains Epicurus’s three criteria of truth: aisthēsis (“ess-THEE-siss”), pathē (“PATH-ee”), and these concepts, usually translated as “preconceptions.” Epicureans and Stoics both believed that these concepts were required for rational thought and the ability to connect names with objects.
ANSWER: prolēpseis [or prolēpsis]
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