Category: Twentieth Memorials
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February: “What Destroys A Man More Quickly Than To Work, Think, and Feel … Without Any Deep Personal Desire…?”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! In the days since our last Twentieth we’ve had, in the Epicurean Philosophy...
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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 December 2016 – Year-End Reflections
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! For this last Twentieth post of 2016 I would like to thank the...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November – Polystratus On The Importance of Limits: The Possible and The Impossible
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Happy Twentieth! In his article “Limit and Variation In The Epicurean Philosophy,” Phillip...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October – Lorenzo Valla Sides With Epicurus Over the Stoics
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! On this Twentieth of October I’d like to call your attention to a page that contains...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September – Epicurus vs. Plato – Part 1 – “Gorgias”
It is my view that one of the most important things we can do to better understand Epicurus is to study the majority opinion of the leading philosophers who came...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of August!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Recently in the Facebook group we’ve had opportunity to once again discuss the...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July – “Conceiving The Good”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! On this Twentieth of July I’d like to simply highlight one short passage...
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Happy Twentieth of June! – Born To Seek Pleasure And To Overcome Pain
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! On this Twentieth of June I want to introduce you to the newest...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May – “…a small domain, the fine breath of Muses’ Grecian song, and the spiteful crowd to spurn.”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Today is the Twentieth of May, the day of the month designated by...