Category: Introductory Material
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“Tell me not, Zeno, that the teacher is vicious who washes depravity from the youthful heart; who lays the storm of its passions, and turns all its sensibilities to good.”
The following words never were spoken by Epicurus, but they entered world literature in 1822, over the name of Frances Wright, and they clearly come from the pen of someone...
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New Audio Presentation of The Letter to Herodotus
[Latest Updated Version in MP3 here.] [Vimeo Edition] Of all the original texts that are available from the ancient world, Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus preserved by Diogenes Laertius is our...
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New Project: Returning the Eternal Light of Epicureanism to England! And Your Help is Needed!
**New Project: Returning the Eternal Light of Epicureanism to England!** The Roman coin pictured here contains the inscription “Redditor Lucis Aeterna,” which can loosely be translated as “Rebringer of the...
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Proof, Not Assertion
(Cross-posted with a few edits from the Garden of Epicurus facebook group.) This is in regard to strengthening our minds. It was inspired by Mark C.’s thread in the Facebook...
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Elemental Epicureanism
[For the new web site dedicated to this project click here.] Previously included as an Appendix to the ebook version of Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens” is an...
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Toward A “Jefferson Dictionary” of Epicurean Terminology
In his letter to William Short, Thomas Jefferson left us a useful outline of major points of Epicurean doctrine. I have long admired that list, and now that recent studies...
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What Is Happy Living?
As so often in Epicureanism, definitions are key. In this attached clip from the HG Wells movie “Things to Come”, the speechmaker says “The object of life is Happy Living…”...
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On Long And Short Arguments, Vatican Saying 26, And Lucretius
Today I used VS 26 “One must presume that long and short arguments contribute to the same end,” in a post on Facebook, but in using it in a context...
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New Video Discussing Epicurus: “Good Without God”
Today I received a very nice email from a reader of the blog who resides in Australia, and he provided me a link to a video series he produced entitled...