Author: Cassius Amicus
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Unwinding A Confusion About the Faculty of Pleasure By Considering the Nature of Money
In a recent editorial, noted economic commentator Steve Forbes makes a point about “money” that provides a very useful analogy for those interested in the Epicurean view of “pleasure.” Before...
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Purging Yourself of Stoicism
I believe the most important task that any modern student of Epicurus can do is to examine his or her own thoughts to identify the Stoicisms that have been absorbed...
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*Action* As A Requirement of Pleasure
One of the strong implications of non-Epicurean philosophy is that our goal in life should be to achieve a “state” of mental peace. Such states go under different names according...
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A List of Events Documenting Christian Persecution of Hellenes In The Ancient World
This is just a short post to link to an excellent page that is mostly in Greek, but with an English summary, entitled Christian Persecution Against the Hellenes. The page...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Vatican Saying 45: “The study of nature does not create men who are fond of boasting...
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The Real Troika
At present the Greeks are focused on the actions of three institutions that are referred to as the “troika” – the European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the...
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Why I Think Epicurus Would Have Hated The “Tetrapharmakon”
Wikipedia informs us that the tetrapharmakon comes down to us from a parchment found in the papyri of Herculaneum that it is attributed to Philodemus. Wikipedia also informs us of...
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An Important Observation About A Test of “Natural and Necessary”
Epicurean passages from Seneca must be scrutinized strictly to determine whether Seneca is reporting accurately, or warping an Epicurean doctrine for a Stoic misuse. Below is a passage I first posted...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of June! – “Outlines”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Epicurus advised us to prepare outlines to assist in our understanding of true philosophy. Last November...
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Thoughts On The Natural State of Mankind
In a recent blog post at “The Autarkist,” Hiram Crespo wrote about “Religion As Play,” a referenced to a statement attributed to Epicurus that “to pray is natural.” Of course...