Author: Cassius Amicus
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Peace and Safety For your Twentieth of October: Two Ways of Looking At Decision-Making
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Life frequently requires us to make decisions with far-reaching effects. We have had much discussion lately...
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Maximize Pleasurable Living and Avoid Both Pain And Anesthesia (And the Philosophies Which Promote Them!)
Recently a poster on the Epicurean Facebook age asked an excellent question about the concept of being stoical. He posted this definition: “sto·i·cal – adjective – “enduring pain and hardship without showing...
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The Epicurean Views the Modern Mind Finds Unthinkable: “Dogmatism” and “Free Will”
[Update: See this page for summary of this topic.] It is my experience that there are two Epicurean views which more than any other cause the modern mind to recoil...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of September! – On Pain That Cannot Be Avoided
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! This Twentieth of September I would like to focus again on a passage from “A Few...
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The Soul of the Epicurean Warrior Does Not Live on Chicken Soup
[For those readers of this blog who do not read the “Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Group,” here is a post of special interest, in slightly modified form, that originated there. It...
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Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of August – On Saving Ourselves From Servitude And Folly
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! This Twentieth of August is a good time to look back at a specific aspect of...
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Describing, Without Answering, An Important Issue – the Nature of “Anticipations” and “Present Impressions of the Mind”
We have many new readers and participants on the Facebook Epicurean Philosophy group, so now is a good time to post again on a topic that I think is very...
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Hugh Munro On The Merits of Epicurus vs. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics
Here’s another example of why some translators and commentators are more to be trusted than others. HAJ Munro appreciated the merits of Epicurean philosophy over the other schools, so he...
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“How Do I Most Quickly Learn The Basics Of Epicurean Philosophy?”
If you are new to the study of Epicurus, you may well ask: “How do I most quickly learn the basics of Epicurean Philosophy?” Here’s my quick answer, which might be...
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Keeping Watch With The Epicurean Chorus – Happily Thriving And Alive With Joy!
Thanks to a friend on the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Page, here is a great find – a specifically Epicurean funeral epitaph. This Latin is CIL (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum) number 10.2971....