Author: Cassius Amicus
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The “Four Days Of Virtue And Painlessness” Challenge
Here is a hypothetical that may help with thinking about the role of “virtue” and “painlessness” in Epicurean philosophy. The assumptions of this hypothetical are very simple and designed to...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April – Conventional Pleasure vs. the “Zero State”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! On this twentieth of April I’d like to offer more thoughts on the issue of whether...
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The Major Importance of “Confident Expectation”
In reading through Plutarch’s attack on Colotes and his Epicurean views (“That It Is Not Possible To Live Pleasurably According To The Doctrines of Epicurus“), I was struck with the...
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A Brief Good Word About the Platonists – At the Expense of the Stoics
I like to admit mistakes and correct them as soon as possible, and tonight I found an article that causes me to think that my opinion of Stoicism has been...
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Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus and The Defense of Pleasure
When I first started reading Lucretius as an introduction to Epicurus, I was consumed with the religious issues, and I found it very difficult to understand how Lucretius could begin...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of March – It’s Time To Rescue Venus!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! The Twentieth of the month is a day to remember not just Epicurus and the founders...
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New “Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy” Video
Today it is time to release an advanced draft of a new “Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy” video I have been preparing. The point of this effort is to produce an...
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The Painless Peter Potter Principle
In 1948, Bob Hope and Jane Russell starred in the movie “The Paleface.” Hope’s character in the movie was “Painless Peter Potter,” a dentist whose selling point was that he...
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One of the Best Presentations On The History of Epicurean Philosophy You Will Likely Ever See
Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve, presents a talk entitled “Lucretius And His Intolerable Ideas.” This talk was given at the Getty Museum on June 5, 2014. This talk focuses...
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Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus, from Book I of De Rerum Natura, Set to Music
Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus, from Book I of De Rerum Natura, set to music. Excellent!