Author: Cassius Amicus
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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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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...