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Gassendi On The Active Epicurean Life: Gliding Firm Like a River
From Page 232 of Thomas Stanley’s Translation of Gassendi: [Some criticize the Epicurean view of pleasure, and] [s]ome laugh hereat: They object, that this pleasure is like the condition of...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of December! Today, A Passage from Gassendi on Felicity in Epicureanism
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! On this Twentieth of December, in the midst of a holiday season in much of the...
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Derivation of the “Riddle of Epicurus”
Epicurus’ “riddle” is cited often on the internet, even in video form. As Wikipedia points out, however, “Epicurus himself did not leave any written form of this argument.” As the...
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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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One of the First English Translations of Gassendi’s “Life And Doctrine Of Epicurus”
In 1660, Thomas Stanley published “A History of Philosophy,” Volume Three of Which Contained “Epicurus, His Life And Doctrine” Written By Petrus Gassendus.” This is of interest for many reasons,...
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The Baseline State: Happy To Be Alive
Vatican Saying 33: The cry of the flesh is not to be hungry, thirsty, or cold; for he who is free of these and is confident of remaining so might...
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“The True Nature of Pleasure” – Norman DeWitt’s Analysis of Epicurean Pleasure
The following extended excerpt is from Chapter XII of Norman DeWitt’s “Epicurus and His Philosophy.” It is presented here without comment as part of our ongoing investigation of Epicurus’ views...
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Was Ancient Epicureanism A Suicide Club? Did the Priests do Iphigenia A Favor?
We are told incessantly by the usual authorities that Epicurus held that pleasure is the absence of pain, and that when we feel no pain we have no need of...
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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,...
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Is That All There Is? The Sad Ending of R. D. Hicks’ “Stoics And Epicureans”
I have read now to the conclusion of “Stoics And Epicureans,” a well-known work that contains much excellent information about Stoicism and Epicureanism. As I went through it, I collected...