Category: Texts on Epicurus
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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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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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An Ebook Update
One of the most important projects of this website is to promote the philosophy of Epicurus by making his works more readily accessible. With that goal in mind, today brings...
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The NewEpicurean Library
New for today on the website is The NewEpicurean Library. The ancient Epicurean texts remaining to us today are available freely on the internet in a variety of translations, and...
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Not by Chance, Not by Fortune, Not by Fate, Not by Accident, and Not by the Gods was the World Made, But by Natural Law
Epicurus has been slandered through the ages with the contention that he taught that the universe arose “by accident.” Religionists warned their flocks away from Epicurus by arguing that the...
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On The Critical Distinction Between “Events” And “Accidents”
In the course of preparing a presentation of De Rerum Natura with the translations of Cyril Bailey, H.A.J. Munro, and the original Latin in parallel, I came across a translation...
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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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First Edition of “The Evidence-Based Life: Epicurus and the Essential Nature of Things” released today, 1/1/10
Check the main page at www.NewEpicurean.com for links to the free download, or read excerpts from the ebook online!