Loeb Principal Doctrines print the counsel to withdraw from the political crowd
Hicks’s 1925 Loeb prints the Principal Doctrines and Letter to Menoeceus in which security is sought by withdrawal from the many rather than by holding office. In the causal graph this event weakens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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Hicks’s 1925 Loeb prints the Principal Doctrines and Letter to Menoeceus in which security is sought by withdrawal from the many rather than by holding office. The dated public English instrument is the Loeb. Civic quietism is stored as a received teaching, not as a vote Epicurus cast in an assembly.
Context
Athenian democracy already existed as a contested office-holding system. A school that treats office as a trap reduces the pool of people willing to staff public boards. That is a resilience cost even when the school never issues a statute.
Epicurus is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
Quietism can protect a household and starve a civic roster.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Epicurus
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
Garden founder as named in later editions and finds. Printers, excavators, and editors publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLoeb Principal Doctrines print the counsel to withdraw from the political crowd
- weakensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1925 · verified
Quietism can protect a household and starve a civic roster.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.35 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.7)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — EpicurusStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
- 2.Diogenes Laertius, Lives, Loeb / Hicks vol. 2Internet Archive / Loeb Classical Library scan · High credibility · verified
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorEpicurus
- contributed toFactLoeb Principal Doctrines print the counsel to withdraw from the political crowd
- weakensDriverDemocratic Resilience
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). Loeb Principal Doctrines print the counsel to withdraw from the political crowd. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-lathe-biosas-withdrawal
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Accessed 15 October 2026.
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