The Advice of Marcus The Golden
Thanks to Nate for helping me express in one graphic what I have spilled weeks of time writing in much less effective form.
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Foundations
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,...
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Library
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...
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EpicureanFriends.com
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...
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Twelve Elementals of Nature
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...
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Forty Authorized Doctrines
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...
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Vatican Library Sayings
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...
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A Pattern I Observe In The Connection (Or Lack Thereof) Between Humanism And Epicurean Philosophy
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),...
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Epicurean Philosophy vs. Humanism
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,...
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Visualizing Principal Doctrine Nine – “”If every pleasure could be intensified…”
**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...
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“We And The Stoics Today” – New Translation of An Article From The Thessaloniki Garden:
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. ...
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Silicon Valley And Big Tech Are No Friends of the Epicureans
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...
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A New BioEthics Presentation by Christos Yapijakis – Genetics and Bioethics – A Philosophical Approach
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...
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Visualizing Principal Doctrine 8 – “No pleasure is a bad thing in itself….”
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...
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Happy Twentieth of February 2019 – Remembering Epicurus Through The Prickly Cicero
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...
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Christos Yapijakis: Mistakes of Cognitive Perception and Epicurean Prudence
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...