Author: Cassius Amicus
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A Response to A Stoic-Oriented Video on Epicurus
We’re never very far from the “Stoic v Epicurean” debate, and I want to thank Shahab Ghadiri for bringing to my attention a relatively recent (November 2020) video by a...
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Lucretius Today Episode 082 – The Opening Of Book Six and Restatement of the Goal of the Poem
Listen to “Episode 082 – Opening of Book Six – Restatement of Goal of Poem” on Spreaker. Welcome to Episode Eighty-Two of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and...
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Foundations 004 – “And From There He Returned to Us Again – A Conqueror…”
And from there, he returned again to us – a conqueror – to relate those things that can be, and those that can not, and to tell us on what...
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Foundations 003 – “Thus The Living Force of His Soul Won The Day.”
Thus the living force of his soul won the day. On he passed, far beyond the flaming walls of the world, traversing the immeasurable universe through mind and spirit. (Lucretius Book...
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Lucretius Today Episode 081 – Development of the Arts, and The End of Book Five
Listen to “Episode 081 – Development of the Arts And The End of Book Five” on Spreaker. Welcome to Episode Eighty-One of Lucretius Today. I am your host Cassius, and...
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Sabine Hossenfelder – Why The Multiverse Is Religion
I did not think it possible that I would be back again so quickly with another video from Sabine Hossenfelder, but here we are! This one is perhaps in the...
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Video: Can Science Be Too Speculative?
Epicurus regularly warned against the hazards of skepticism, including viewpoints which allege that confidence in knowledge is impossible. Skepticism comes in too many different forms to list here, but ranging...
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Foundations 002 – This Man Could Not Be Discouraged By Stories Of Gods
This man could not be discouraged by stories of gods, nor by thunderbolts, nor by the threatening roar of heaven. These served only to spur him on, filling him with...
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Foundations 001: The First To Stand Up To Religion, Face to Face
At a time when human life – before the eye of all – lay foully prostrate upon the Earth, crushed down under the weight of Religion, which showed its head...
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Quote of the Day: VS09
VS09. Necessity is an evil, but there is no necessity to live under the control of necessity.