Author: Cassius Amicus
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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...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of February – Pleasure, Pain, and Erroneous Standards
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Here’s a point on which I sometimes see confusion: The Epicureans held that...
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Epicurus Overcame The Terror Of Religion And Showed Us How To Live According to Nature
I am continuing to work on my “Message of the Epicureans” outline as a method of presenting Epicurean philosophy in a systematic way. I won’t do this for every item, but...
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The Sixth Annual Panhellenic Symposium On Epicurean Philosophy Is This Weekend (Feb. 6) In Athens!
Here is a link to the main page for the Symposium, with part of their agenda below: Contact us ideoszen@gmail.com …. Official Site in greek language www.epicuros.gr 6th Panhellenic Symposium...
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Discussion Forum Update – EpicureanFriends.com
Over the last several years my major participation at Facebook has been focused in the Epicurean Philosophy Group. Unfortunately at present my user account has been compromised and is now disabled....