Welcome to the Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy page. The purpose of this presentation is to summarize the major themes of Epicurean philosophy in a single format. After a brief introduction,...
The ancient Epicurean texts that remain to us today are available freely on the internet in many different translations. This page provides links to various translations of the core works...
The EpicureanFriends.com forum is the place to go for discussion of Epicurean philosophy. The forum provides us the latest technology to study and share thoughts about Epicurus in a way...
Epicurus held that the faculties given to us by Nature are sufficient for our use in learning enough about Nature to live happily. Happy living requires that we understand enough...
The Authorized Doctrines of Epicurus Our knowledge of Epicurus’ Principle Doctrines today comes mainly from Diogenes Laertius, who ended his biography of Epicurus with an appendix which he introduced as...
This list by an unknown author was discovered in 1888 at the Vatican and is reputed to date from the fourteenth century. The following text is primarily from Cyril Bailey...
NEW: Now in Second Draft. Please read and comment here. Please check out a significant new article at Epicureanfriends.com entitled “On Pleasure, Pain, And Happiness” by Elayne Coulter. Here is...
Thanks to Nate for helping me express in one graphic what I have spilled weeks of time writing in much less effective form.
My goal in the discussion of “Humanism” is to generate “light” rather than “heat,” but since the goal of life is “light” (pleasure), and not the avoidance of “heat” (pain),...
I have never considered Epicurean philosophy to be a form of “Humanist” philosophy any more than it is a form of Stoicism or Platonism. I haven’t written extensively on this,...
**Visualizing Principal Doctrine 9 ** “If every pleasure could be intensified so that it lasted and influenced the whole organism or the most essential parts of our nature, pleasures would...
Today Elli P. has posted “We And The Stoics Today – Or, ‘To Those From The Stoa,‘” written by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos, member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki 27.11.2015. ...
This article lays out a very concerning aspect of Silicon Valley – and a reason that Epicurean platforms should not depend on Big Tech. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/style/silicon-valley-stoics.html (1) “An ancient Greek school...
Christos Yapijakis recently presented a seminar on Genetics and Bioethics about 10 at the University of Cyprus postgraduate program in Biological Sciences. The context of the presentation was the news...
Visualizing Principal Doctrine 8 “No pleasure is a bad thing in itself: but the means which produce some pleasures bring with them disturbances many times greater than the pleasures.” This...
For today’s Twentieth, here is confirmation of the importance of the Twentieth to Ancient Epicureans, even through the words of the spiteful Cicero, who did his best to undermine Epicurean...