Category: Against Platonism
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A Video Helpful For Highlighting Differences Between Epicureanism and Stoicism
May Plato’s God of Reason forgive me for posting this link, but if asked I will respond that his God fated me to do it! I recently came across the...
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Epicurus On The Meaning of “Good”
This is just a short post to make it easier to find a quotation that I seem to be coming back to more and more lately on the subject of...
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It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names [such as Plato] so artificially magnified.
From Thomas Jefferson’s letter to William Short of August 4, 1820, here is a useful reminder of the errors of the philosopher with whom Epicurus so often disagreed: [T]he superlative...
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“Failure of Nerve?” Or “Failure to Pay Attention?”
I have a standing rule for my blog that I will not devote more space than absolutely necessary to discussing Ayn Rand and Objectivism. That is not to say that...
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“If You Reject Absolutely Any Single Sensation … You Will Reject Every Standard of Truth.”
Yesterday I had the opportunity to spend some quality time with a close friend and discuss philosophy. As we inevitably got to the point of discussing the “origin of the...
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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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“Reasoning In Accordance With The Facts”
I have been reminded that I regularly make fairly pointed comments on the topic of “reason,” and I want to take this opportunity to explain why. This post is especially...
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It All Comes Down To This. Take Your Stand, And Know Why You Take It.
Genesis 1: In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. Koran 2.29: How can you deny Allah and you were without life, and He gave you life?...
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Celebrating 2000 Years of Epicurean Contempt For Stoicism and Platonism: Lucian of Samosata and His Dialog “The Double Indictment”
In his letter to Herodotus, Epicurus wrote that we should “treat with contempt” those like the Stoics and Platonists who argued that — apart from “religion” or “logic” — knowledge...
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The True Context of Virtue Is Not Original Sin But “Original Honesty”
I return again and again to the topic of “virtue” because I have a concept of virtue embedded in my mind from pre-Epicurean days which I need to un-learn. Epicurus’...