Author: Cassius Amicus
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Lucretius: Not Accidents, Not Incidents, but “Contextidents”
[Update 06/02/18: See the reference at the end of this article to the 1743 Daniel Browne edition, which I believe gets this right. The correct word is simply “events.”] ...
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In Life, There Is No Antidote to Pain But Pleasure
Anyone who studies Epicurean philosophy quickly learns that Epicurus held a definition of “gods” that is very different from what we are used to today. Whereas we define “gods” as...
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Handout – “Major Characteristics of the Epicurean View of Life”
I previously posted the video version of this list, and tonight I prepared the list in handout form to add to the EpicureanFriends File database. Please click on the link...
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New Handout – Applications of the Fundamentals of Nature.
Click here for handout two in a series: Applications of the Fundamental of Nature. This handout summarizes major applications of the Fundamentals of Nature. Please make suggestions for changes or corrections to...
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A Single Page PDF Handout of the Fundamental Epicurean Doctrines
Due to my age I remember a time before smartphones when I carried around my notes and to-do lists on printed pieces of letter-sized paper folded to fit in my...
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Happy Twentieth of November! Giving Thanks Where It Is Truly Due
Happy Twentieth of November! This upcoming week in the United States is one of the primary times that family and friends travel to be with one another and celebrate the...
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Happy Twentieth of October!
Happy Twentieth of October! This twentieth, after more than seven years of intensive study of Epicurus and posting at NewEpicurean.com, I find myself reflecting on a passage from the book...
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Thoughts On The Nature of “Gods” – 10/10/2017
I am one of the ones who takes Epicurus literally: (1) that there exists life throughout the universe; (2) that some of those forms of life are “higher” than ours;...
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Happy Twentieth of September: “Everything Is Done For the Sake of Pleasure”
Happy Twentieth of September! For today’s Twentieth, here is a passage from the letter of Cosma Raimondi to remind us that the pursuit of pleasure is not an “addiction” or...
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Note on the Last Words of Brutus – From Cassius Dio, Not Plutarch
The Wikipedia entry for the Battle of Philippi includes this (as of 09/01/17): Plutarch also reports the last words of Brutus, quoted by a Greek tragedy “O wretched Virtue, thou...