Month: October 2011
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Gibbon on “An idle and extravagant opinion which was rejected with contempt by every man of a liberal education and understanding.”
As hard as it is to imagine today, there was once a time when the actions of the enlightened leaders of Western Civilization were “never regulated by any serious convictions...
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Gibbon, The Immortality of the Soul, and Epicureanism Among Women – Part I
Several recent emails and Facebook posts have me thinking about a phenomena that seems even more rare today than that of men who publicly embrace Epicurus’ Principle Doctrines: women who...
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Love, Marriage, and the Epicurean in the Modern World
This past week I received a very interesting set of emails from a fan of Epicurus by the name of Maruli Marulaki, who related to me her desire to find...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October! – “Just as there is no profit in medicine unless it expels the diseases of the body, so there is none in philosophy either unless it expels the malady of the soul.”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans among us, no matter where you might be! For today I have selected a brief excerpt from Chapter Three of DeWitt’s Epicurus and His...
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Cicero’s “Defense of Epicurus” – And An Invitation To Speak for Epicurus Today
I have mentioned on this blog before that Charlton Griffin’s audiobook recording of Lucretius’ On The Nature of Things was my real introduction to the world of Epicureanism. I have...