Author: Cassius Amicus
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A Brief Good Word About the Platonists – At the Expense of the Stoics
I like to admit mistakes and correct them as soon as possible, and tonight I found an article that causes me to think that my opinion of Stoicism has been...
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Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus and The Defense of Pleasure
When I first started reading Lucretius as an introduction to Epicurus, I was consumed with the religious issues, and I found it very difficult to understand how Lucretius could begin...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of March – It’s Time To Rescue Venus!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! The Twentieth of the month is a day to remember not just Epicurus and the founders...
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New “Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy” Video
Today it is time to release an advanced draft of a new “Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy” video I have been preparing. The point of this effort is to produce an...
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The Painless Peter Potter Principle
In 1948, Bob Hope and Jane Russell starred in the movie “The Paleface.” Hope’s character in the movie was “Painless Peter Potter,” a dentist whose selling point was that he...
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One of the Best Presentations On The History of Epicurean Philosophy You Will Likely Ever See
Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve, presents a talk entitled “Lucretius And His Intolerable Ideas.” This talk was given at the Getty Museum on June 5, 2014. This talk focuses...
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Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus, from Book I of De Rerum Natura, Set to Music
Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus, from Book I of De Rerum Natura, set to music. Excellent!
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Thomas Aquinas v. Epicurus – On The Nature of Pleasure
I have been continuing to research the philosophical background against which Epicurus constructed his Principle Doctrines, and I decided to let a more recent writer do some of the work...
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Pleasure and Time – Stoics v. Epicureans
A recent post on the Epicurean Philosophy facebook page pointed out that Pierre Hadot has written in “Philosophy as a Way of Life” that “both Stoicism and Epicureanism … posit …...
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If Death Is Nothing To Us, What Is Everything To Us?
Subtitled: “Why We Must Fight For Joy And Delight.” The second most important doctrine in the list left to us by the ancient Epicureans is “Death is nothing to us;...