Category: Norman W. DeWitt
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An Ebook Collection Of The Basic Texts – “A Life Worthy Of The Gods”
Today I have added to the website a new epub: “A Life Worthy of the Gods – The Life and Work of Epicurus” which may be downloaded here or, as...
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“You, Father, Found The Truth” – A Combined Father’s Day and Twentieth Message
The opening of Lucretius’ Book III is a particularly appropriate text for father’s day, but in addition I would like to point out something I see as an error that...
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In Explanation of “Anticipations”: An Interesting Analogy From Norman DeWitt, And A Suggestion From Seneca
I now tend to think that the best in-depth explanation and defense of “Anticipations,” under the name of “Innate Principles,” has been given to us by Jackson Barwis in his...
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First Edition of New Ebook: In Search of the Missing Third Leg: The Testimony of Jackson Barwis
The following is the introduction to a new epub I am preparing on Anticipations. Although I do not contend that he was an avowed Epicurean, I have been reading the...
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Philosophy for the Millions
In January of 1947, Norman W. DeWitt, professor emeritus of Latin at Victoria College in Toronto, Canada, published the first in a series of scholarly articles on the life and...
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For New Students of Epicurus
When I first started this web page, my goal was as stated in the page banner, to “promote the study of the philosophy of Epicurus.” I phrased the goal in...
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Caveat Emptor: Pick Your Texts and Commentaries Carefully!
The student of Epicurus would do well to remember that misrepresentations of Epicurus’ views, whether intentional or innocent, did not end with Cicero in ancient times. As DeWitt suggested, even...
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Gratitude As a Source of Strength During Times of Misfortune
If you are like me, you often hear friends say (or post to Facebook) that they “couldn’t go on if they did not have their faith in God to pull...
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Common Fallacies About Epicurus (#2): Epicurus maintained that Pleasure is the “Greatest Good”
A close reading of the evidence indicates clearly that Epicurus taught that life itself, rather than pleasure, is the “greatest good.” This issue ranks with the statement “all sensations are...
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Common Fallacies About Epicurus (#1): Epicurus maintained that all sensations are “true.”
Readers of this blog will notice the deep respect paid here to the work of Norman W. DeWitt, the late professor of classics from the University of Toronto who devoted...