Month: August 2012
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Food For Thought On “Images” From the Age of Epicureanism
We don’t often discuss the Epicurean view of “images” anymore, but certainly Epicurus considered them significant, and discussion of them occupies a good deal of space in Lucretius’ De Rerum...
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Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of August!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! For today’s post I have selected “Aphorism 7” from Neitzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil.” 7. How...
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How Would Epicurus Answer Nietzsche?
This weekend I finished reading H.L. Mencken’s “The Philosophy of Frederich Nietzsche” and I’d like to pick out part of Mencken’s conclusion as particularly interesting to a student of Epicurus. ...
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“Epicurus had triumphed, and every respectable intellect in Rome was Epicurean—when Paul appeared.”
Thanks to a recent post in the “Garden of Epicurus” Facebook page, I have now taken the time to read Nietzsche’s “The AntiChrist.” I have read nothing else by Nietzsche...