Month: January 2015
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of January: Symposium in Athens
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! The year 2015 is shaping up to be one of great developments in our still-small Epicurean...
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Cosma Raimondi – Defender of Epicurus 200 Years Before Gassendi
Here is an audio version of a letter written in 1429 by Cosma Raimondi defending Epicurus against the Stoics, Platonists, and Aristotelians. It is more narrowly focused than the Epicurean...
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The Reason For The Philosophic Fighting, In The Words of Cicero’s Epicurean Speaker
There’s an important issue behind the Epicurean rejection of “Stoic” ideas which can be seen in a brief selection from Cicero. At the beginning of the Epicurean section of On...
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Defending Epicurus In 1858: “One Epicurus can do more to advance human happiness than a thousand Zenos.”
“HELEN BERNE” An Original Novellette for the Chronicle By R. W. Thomas Clarksville Chronicle, Clarksville Tennessee, Friday, August 13, 1858. (Excerpt from Chapter XV) If all persons of your age,...
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Toward A Better Understanding Of Epicurus: Eight Areas Of Focus For 2015
My goal in writing about Epicurus is to point the way to happier living today through Epicurean philosophy. Only historians and academics are interested in detail for the sake of...