Category: Stoicism (Against)
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Nietzsche, Epicurus, And The Most Successful Double Agent In History(?)
One of the inflection points of world history which researchers into Epicurus will frequently encounter is the work of Paul of Tarsus. Norman DeWitt devoted a book to the subject...
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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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The Reason For The Philosophic Fighting, In The Words of Cicero’s Epicurean Speaker
There’s an important issue behind the Epicurean rejection of “Stoic” ideas which can be seen in a brief selection from Cicero. At the beginning of the Epicurean section of On...
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Defending Epicurus In 1858: “One Epicurus can do more to advance human happiness than a thousand Zenos.”
“HELEN BERNE” An Original Novellette for the Chronicle By R. W. Thomas Clarksville Chronicle, Clarksville Tennessee, Friday, August 13, 1858. (Excerpt from Chapter XV) If all persons of your age,...
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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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Two More Reflections On Epicurean Philosophy In the Renaissance
In the Cambridge book that contains the Cosma Raimondi letter cited here several days ago, there is the following paragraph, which is part of an introduction of a brief passage...
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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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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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Epicurus v. Cicero on Natural Law and Justice
I am probably not going to add this to my Epicurus v. Stoicism chart (to be posted here soon!), because Cicero did not consider himself Stoic, and I want to...