Month: December 2013
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Installment Two of “Compare And Contrast” Memes: Epicurus v. Heraclitus
Here is installment 2 in an anticipated “compare and contrast” series of memes for internet distribution. This one has been prepared entirely in INKSCAPE, a free vector graphics program that...
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A Happy Holiday Season To Us All!
Here’s a link to a new and very good essay by Hiram at the International Society of Epicurus: “Why Materialism Matters.” I am in the middle of some reading that tracks...
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Does “The true Epicurean lives inside his walls with a few close friends and let the world outside the garden go to hell?”
Included in item 15 of the “indictment of Epicureanism” that I recently posted is the charge “The true Epicurean lives inside his walls with a few close friends and let...
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An Aristotelian Indictment Against Epicurus
Since at least the time of Cicero, Epicurus and his philosophy have been vigorously attacked by Platonists, Stoics, Peripatetics, Skeptics, and all varieties in between. The attack continues to this...
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Gassendi’s Epicurus: Live Neither As A Lion Nor As A Gnat
From page 239 of Thomas Stanley’s translation of Gassendi. I advise that every man should examine his own genius, and advise with himself, that he may apply himself to that...
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Gassendi On The Active Epicurean Life: Gliding Firm Like a River
From Page 232 of Thomas Stanley’s Translation of Gassendi: [Some criticize the Epicurean view of pleasure, and] [s]ome laugh hereat: They object, that this pleasure is like the condition of...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of December! Today, A Passage from Gassendi on Felicity in Epicureanism
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! On this Twentieth of December, in the midst of a holiday season in much of the...
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Derivation of the “Riddle of Epicurus”
Epicurus’ “riddle” is cited often on the internet, even in video form. As Wikipedia points out, however, “Epicurus himself did not leave any written form of this argument.” As the...
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Pierre Gassendi on Epicureanism vs. Skepticism
From Page 130 of the Stanley translation of Gassendi’s “De Vita & Moribus Epicuri:” For this reason, a wise man will neither hearken to the Fables of Poets, nor will...
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One of the First English Translations of Gassendi’s “Life And Doctrine Of Epicurus”
In 1660, Thomas Stanley published “A History of Philosophy,” Volume Three of Which Contained “Epicurus, His Life And Doctrine” Written By Petrus Gassendus.” This is of interest for many reasons,...