Category: Twentieth Memorials
-
Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! For today’s post I would simply like to reiterate my concern, which I share with Plotina,...
-
Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! A friend in Greece has recently informed me about the Seikilos inscription and song, which is...
-
Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of December!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Today I would like to acknowledge my appreciation for the work of Stefan Streitferdt, who recently...
-
Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Epicurus constantly advised us to weigh and balance our decisions on how to act (or...
-
Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October! – “Just as there is no profit in medicine unless it expels the diseases of the body, so there is none in philosophy either unless it expels the malady of the soul.”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans among us, no matter where you might be! For today I have selected a brief excerpt from Chapter Three of DeWitt’s Epicurus and His...
-
Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September! – A listening suggestion.
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans among us, no matter where you might be! Before this month is over, author Stephen Greenblatt will be releasing his new book on Lucretius...
-
For Your Twentieth of August: A Thought From the Marquis De Condorcet
Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of August! As Thomas Jefferson said in his letter to William Short: “I am glad the bust of Condorcet has been saved and so...
-
For Your Twentieth of July: Dispelling the Myth That Epicurus Was An Enemy of All Culture
Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of July! Students of Epicureanism regularly confront the accusation that Epicurus was an enemy of all culture. The truth is that Epicurus was not...
-
“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...
-
Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of May!
“Genial, Reasonable, Yet Resolute” My thought for the day was prompted by a line from “St. Paul and Epicurus,” wherein Norman Dewitt stated that “[T]he philosophy of Epicurus was animated...