Author: Cassius Amicus
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Dawn of A New Age Of Epicurus
If you follow the world of politics, the last ten days in the USA have provided an important reminder: where passions run high, truth is often the first casualty. If...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October – Tips on Epicurean Reasoning from Philodemus
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Every day, not just the Twentieth, is a good day to remember that Epicurean philosophy teaches a...
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The Epicurean “Method of Analogy” in Philodemus, And Its Vital Importance to Us
What do we do when we are confronted by differences of opinion among people who believe very strongly in their ideals, even though those ideals vary tremendously from person to...
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“This Week In Epicurean Philosophy”
For the last several years (one hundred and twenty five weeks, to be exact) I have been producing a short weekly summary of notable links and discussions on the Facebook...
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“Quantity” Does Not Equal “Type”
The diagram associated with this post is intended to dramatize the question: Does any quantity of a thing ever change that thing into its opposite? When Epicurus stated that there...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September! – An Overview of the Letter to Herodotus
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! This month for the Twentieth, I offer a quick outline of the major points of...
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Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy – An Outline
Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy – Click here for larger text, here for smaller text, and here for frame-free version. Please click here for dispute as to translation of PD6. This outline represents my latest...
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All Dressed Up But No Place To Go
Thanks to Alexander R. for linking to this video at the Science Channel, which alleges that the robot in this example is well on its way to learning emotional associations....
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A Season Of The Year To Remember Fallen Epicureans
Checking back over the last four years, it seems that late in August of odd-numbered years I have resubmitted the following post on “A Season of the Year To Remember Fallen...
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Is the Fountain Of Pleasure Tainted? Or Does the Taint Arise In How We Approach It?
Some people seem to like to quote Lucretius out of context, in a way that implies that Lucretius was attacking, rather than following, pleasure as the guide of life. Here’s...