Author: Cassius Amicus
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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...
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Happy Twentieth of August – “How Long Should the Parthenon Stand?”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! For today’s Twentieth, in some troubled times in the United States, I would...
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A Dialog On “Epicurean Ways of Thinking” and “ReHellenization In Light of Epicurean Philosophy”
[Note: The following is an exchange recently held on the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Group. I have edited down the number comments to keep the thread more focused. I plan to...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of July – Live Like Epicurus!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! For today’s Twentieth, I’d like to feature a music video presentation from Haris...
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The Epicurean Critique of Mathematics
I just received this link and have not had a chance to read it but the topic seems fascinating (“The Epicurean Critique of Mathematics”) and it comes to us through...