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...
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...
From Christos Yapijakis: I have translated for you and our international friends my Greek presentation slides at the 9th Panhellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy. [The title is “Mistakes of Cognitive...
In most “enlightened” circles today it is accepted and even required correctness to teach that the universe is not controlled by meddling gods, and that it is foolish to look...
Epicurus Principle Doctrine One: “A blessed and imperishable being neither has trouble itself nor causes trouble to any other,therefore it is never constrained by anger or favor, for all such...
Epicurus Principal Doctrine Two: “Death is nothing to us; for that is dissolved is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.” If there is any...
These are several key texts that, in comparison with it, help explain the context of PD3. I hope to improve this with better graphics and come up with many...
Today I composed a new graphic to illustrate my view of PD3. It’s a total shame that this has been reduced to “what’s good is easy to get” in the...