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Epicurus, Principal Doctrines
the Principal Doctrines
also: kuriai doxai, Kyriai Doxai, Sovereign Maxims, select and brief maxims
Epicurus's collection of short doctrinal maxims (Greek Kyriai Doxai). Cotta quotes its first maxim, that what is blessed and immortal neither has trouble nor causes it.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.20 Epicurus's \textit{[Greek: kyriai doxai]}
The Kyriai Doxai ("Principal Doctrines" or "Sovereign Maxims"), a collection of forty terse doctrinal aphorisms of Epicurus that his followers learned by heart. Cicero quotes one of them in 2.21 to expose its moral implications.
- On the Nature of the Gods §1.85 \textit{[Greek: kuriai doxai]} (sovereign opinions)
Epicurus's Principal Doctrines (Kyriai Doxai), a set of pithy maxims summarizing his teaching. Cotta quotes the first, that the blessed and immortal neither has trouble nor causes it.