Category: Featured
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of February!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! On this Twentieth of February I would like to call attention to the success of the...
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Announcement for the Upcoming Conference in Athens Feb 15-16, 2014
A new page has gone up from the Athens group with the agenda for the upcoming conference, with this English introduction: The epicurean philosophy in our epoch “Kepos” is a...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! On this Twentieth of January I’d like to repost a section from Frances Wright’s “A Few...
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The Weeping Philosopher vs the Laughing Philosopher(s)
I’ll have to quibble with Johannes Moreelse‘s depiction of Democritus (he seems to me to look more impish than simply laughing) but otherwise this early 1600’s painting is a brilliant...
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Announcing the Launching of “AFewDaysInAthens.com”
I believe Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens” to be an important book in presenting the story of Epicurus to new generations. For that reason I am today launching...
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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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A Happy Holiday Season To Us All!
Here’s a link to a new and very good essay by Hiram at the International Society of Epicurus: “Why Materialism Matters.” I am in the middle of some reading that tracks...
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Does “The true Epicurean lives inside his walls with a few close friends and let the world outside the garden go to hell?”
Included in item 15 of the “indictment of Epicureanism” that I recently posted is the charge “The true Epicurean lives inside his walls with a few close friends and let...
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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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Gassendi’s Epicurus: Live Neither As A Lion Nor As A Gnat
From page 239 of Thomas Stanley’s translation of Gassendi. I advise that every man should examine his own genius, and advise with himself, that he may apply himself to that...