Author: Cassius Amicus
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January – The Limits of Education And the Need to Be “Well Constituted”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Happy Twentieth! Today’s thought comes from 3 Lucretius, where the poet discusses that the nature of...
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Happy Epicurean New Year!
Let me add my own “Happy New Year” greeting to everyone here. As I enter my sixth year of focused attention to studying the philosophy of Epicurus, there are a...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of December – Doubt Is Unpleasant, But It’s Not The Worst Enemy!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Happy Twentieth! As I get back to posting on a regular schedule after my recent trip,...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of November – Epicurean Theory Applies To Everyone And To The Most Difficult Of Issues
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Happy Twentieth! In recent weeks a series of “terrorist” attacks has rocked the world, and...
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Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum!
When many people today think of Epicurean philosophy and its emphasis on “pleasure,” they tend to focus on Epicurus’ advice to tailor our lifestyles toward a long-term view where pleasure...
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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...