Category: Lucian
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January – Confidence in the Face of Deception
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! “Alexander the Oracle-Monger” remains one of my favorite of Lucian’s stories for it’s...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April: Epicureanism for the sake of Epicureanism?
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! For today’s Twentieth I want to pick up on a mention made in a recent post...
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Announcement of New “Epicurean Philosophy” Facebook Group
I do not usually cross-post my “This Week in Epicureanism” Facebook posts here to the main web page, but this time the update contains an announcement of a new Facebook...
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Strike Blows For Epicurus In The Way He Advised – With Compassion
Two recent internet blogs have afforded an unusually good opportunity to “strike a blow for Epicurus.” The two blog entries are “Epicureanism and Regret in Modern Culture” at TheAmericanConservative.com and...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! For today’s post, here is a reminder of the reason we study philosophy, from a great...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Today, at a time when much of the world is cowed into silence by an oppressive...
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Celebrating 2000 Years of Epicurean Contempt For Stoicism and Platonism: Lucian of Samosata and His Dialog “The Double Indictment”
In his letter to Herodotus, Epicurus wrote that we should “treat with contempt” those like the Stoics and Platonists who argued that — apart from “religion” or “logic” — knowledge...
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What Business Have We To Be The Only Sane Men In A Crowd of Madmen?
Recent events in Oslo call for reflection on how Epicureans should react to the malicious and aggressive frauds who all too frequently populate the world. A first thought is to...
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“I love you too well to leave you to the company of a life-long dream.”
“I see you digging up treasure, spreading your wings, nursing extravagant ideas, indulging impossible hopes; and I love you too well to leave you to the company of a life-long...
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A word on the status of the Lucian ebook.
A comment on Facebook prompted me to write the following paragraphs about the status of the Lucian ebook: When I have tried to read Lucian in the past I always...