Author: Cassius Amicus
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Epicurean Basics
Epicurean philosophy is best known for its advocacy of “Pleasure” as the guide to life. Epicurus taught that Nature endows humans (and all animate beings) with a faculty of perceiving...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of June: Haris Dimitriadis’ “Epicurus And the Pleasant Life”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! This twentieth of June brings us to the edge of seeing the release...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May: Better Never To Have Been Born?
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! For this month I am thinking again about those people who talk about...
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Major Characteristics of the Epicurean View of Life
By Cassius Amicus – May 4, 2017 Major Characteristics of the Epicurean View of Life The ancient Epicurean viewpoint emphasizes the following: 1 – A Universe that operates by and...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April – A Few Observations on Epicurean Logic by Phillip de Lacy
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! For this month here is an excellent excerpt from an article entitled Contributions of...
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Epicurean Influence On Humanistic Values in Medicine – A Slide Presentation by Christos Yapijakis
Christos Yapijakis, Assistant Professor of Neurogenetics at the University of Athens School of medicine, has kindly allowed us to share his slide presentation given recently to the 11th World Congress...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of March – On Limits And Perfect Quantities
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Does the issue of “limits” in regard to desire require that we necessarily...
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Why Is the Subject of “Limits” Important?
Do you see why the subject of “limits” was so important to Epicurus that the word is found no less than thirteen times over nine of the forty Principle Doctrines?...
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“Nothing Is Desirable In and Of Itself Other Than Pleasure” – The Importance of the Argument Against Virtue As An End In Itself
Do you see why an Epicurean, in speaking about virtue, will never admit that a thing can be virtuous unless that thing is either pleasurable or leads to pleasure? Do...
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Takis Panagiotopoulos: “How Became Known To Us The Portrait of The Athenian Philosopher Epicurus”
Over at the Facebook Group we recently discussed the location of Epicurus in the famous “School of Athens” artwork, and as part of that discussion it came to light...