Month: August 2014
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Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of August – On Saving Ourselves From Servitude And Folly
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! This Twentieth of August is a good time to look back at a specific aspect of...
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Describing, Without Answering, An Important Issue – the Nature of “Anticipations” and “Present Impressions of the Mind”
We have many new readers and participants on the Facebook Epicurean Philosophy group, so now is a good time to post again on a topic that I think is very...
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Hugh Munro On The Merits of Epicurus vs. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics
Here’s another example of why some translators and commentators are more to be trusted than others. HAJ Munro appreciated the merits of Epicurean philosophy over the other schools, so he...
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“How Do I Most Quickly Learn The Basics Of Epicurean Philosophy?”
If you are new to the study of Epicurus, you may well ask: “How do I most quickly learn the basics of Epicurean Philosophy?” Here’s my quick answer, which might be...