Category: Featured
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New Spanish Language Translation of “A Few Days In Athens”
For the first time in history (so far as I am aware), Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens” is now available in Spanish! Many thanks go to Hiram Crespo...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November: Thomas Jefferson’s Personal Outline of Epicurean Philosophy
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Earlier this week I posted a new topical outline to a book on Epicurean philosophy which...
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New Table of Contents / Finding Aid For “A Few Days In Athens”
This is just a brief post to announce a new “table of contents / finding aid” added to the page for A Few Days In Athens. I plan to eventually...
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Announcing A New Book On Epicurus (In German): “The Epicurean Yearbook”
Tonight I am happy to help announce that Andreas Haf, a student of Epicurus with whom I have corresponded for over a year, has released on Amazon a new book...
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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...