Author: Cassius Amicus
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July – “Conceiving The Good”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! On this Twentieth of July I’d like to simply highlight one short passage...
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Happy Twentieth of June! – Born To Seek Pleasure And To Overcome Pain
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! On this Twentieth of June I want to introduce you to the newest...
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How Do We Meet Seneca’s Stoic Argument: “The ability to increase is proof that a thing is still imperfect.”
PD3: The limit of quantity in pleasures is the removal of all that is painful. Wherever pleasure is present, as long as it is there, there is neither pain of...
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A Comparison Chart on “The Goal of Life”
On a regular basis I like to drop back and summarize what I understand to be some of the key differences between Epicurean and other philosophies. This weekend I put...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May – “…a small domain, the fine breath of Muses’ Grecian song, and the spiteful crowd to spurn.”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Today is the Twentieth of May, the day of the month designated by...
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Lucretius: Proving That The Standard Definition of Gods Is Wrong By Appealing to the True Epicurean Gods
As we parse true and false definitions of “god” in the Epicurean context, there is a very explicit section near the end of Book 2 of “On The Nature of...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April – On “Ever-Changing Desires”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Today is the Twentieth of April, the day of the month designated by...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of March: If [happiness] be absent, ALL our actions are directed towards attaining it.
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Today is the Twentieth of March, the day of the month designated by...
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Emotionlessness? The Epicurean View Is the *Deeper* Experience of Emotion!
We frequently get into discussions in which some people contend that the goal of life is to achieve implacable emotionlessness. The Epicurean view of “tranquility” does not require this, because...
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The Wider Implications Of The Epicurean Warnings About Passionate Love
One of the most troublesome topics used by those who erroneously advocate the view that Epicurus taught “ascetic quietism” is the advice given in Vatican Saying 51. Here is Vatican...