Category: Skepticism (Against)
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Cosma Raimondi – Defender of Epicurus 200 Years Before Gassendi
Here is an audio version of a letter written in 1429 by Cosma Raimondi defending Epicurus against the Stoics, Platonists, and Aristotelians. It is more narrowly focused than the Epicurean...
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Toward A Better Understanding Of Epicurus: Eight Areas Of Focus For 2015
My goal in writing about Epicurus is to point the way to happier living today through Epicurean philosophy. Only historians and academics are interested in detail for the sake of...
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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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A Nexus Between Epicurean Doctrines 31-38, Thomas Jefferson, The Ukraine, and MH370
As I write this, the crises surrounding MH370 and the Ukraine are unresolved and unpredictable. As these events unfold, I think it is useful to consider how the concept of...
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Installment Two of “Compare And Contrast” Memes: Epicurus v. Heraclitus
Here is installment 2 in an anticipated “compare and contrast” series of memes for internet distribution. This one has been prepared entirely in INKSCAPE, a free vector graphics program that...
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An Aristotelian Indictment Against Epicurus
Since at least the time of Cicero, Epicurus and his philosophy have been vigorously attacked by Platonists, Stoics, Peripatetics, Skeptics, and all varieties in between. The attack continues to this...
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Pierre Gassendi on Epicureanism vs. Skepticism
From Page 130 of the Stanley translation of Gassendi’s “De Vita & Moribus Epicuri:” For this reason, a wise man will neither hearken to the Fables of Poets, nor will...
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Epicurus: Against Skepticism
Time to launch a new category for the blog: Against Skepticism. This is a topic that is second in importance perhaps only to Against Platonism. The two are closely related,...