ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to make some headway with understanding some distinctions operative in Hellenistic philosophy. In Hellenistic philosophy "internal touch" emerges as a technical term for the sense that makes us directly aware of changes going on inside. The solution adopted was not to deny the existence of internal touch, which was presumably acknowledged to be a familiar aspect of self-awareness, but to make it, just one half of a duality: internal and external touch. The Epicurean accounts of the other distance senses, hearing and smell. According to the latter school, and to some others in their wake, internal touch registers the respective states not just of the body as such but of all the sense organs. The Epicurean narrowing of the scope of internal touch seems a readily defensible refinement to the Cyrenaic concept.
