Category: Thomas Jefferson
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Response to Donald Robertson Question: “Was Thomas Jefferson More Stoic Or Epicurean?” (Answer: Epicurean!)
Donald Robertson recently linked to an article he wrote and asked the question: “Was Thomas Jefferson more Stoic or Epicurean?” In answering “Epicurean” I will break down my response into...
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Jefferson: To You Modern Deep Thinkers Who Use My Name Without Knowing My Philosophy:
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A Refresher On Epicurean Basics
We tend to spend a lot of time on particular issues of interest to people who already have a fundamental orientation to Epicurus. If you know the basics, then you’re...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November: Thomas Jefferson’s Personal Outline of Epicurean Philosophy
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Earlier this week I posted a new topical outline to a book on Epicurean philosophy which...
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Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of August – On Saving Ourselves From Servitude And Folly
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! This Twentieth of August is a good time to look back at a specific aspect of...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July: “The Greater Part of Life Is Sunshine”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! I know that some find it odd, and others find it tedious, that I am forever...
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More on the “Moral Sense”
Here are two more references I have come across in regard to the faculty of a “moral sense.” I see this as a subject that is related to “anticipations” in...
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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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“That the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical …. hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.”
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1777, by Thomas Jefferson: An Act for establishing religious Freedom. Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free; That all attempts to influence it...
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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...