Author: Cassius Amicus
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of January: Symposium in Athens
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! The year 2015 is shaping up to be one of great developments in our still-small Epicurean...
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Cosma Raimondi – Defender of Epicurus 200 Years Before Gassendi
Here is an audio version of a letter written in 1429 by Cosma Raimondi defending Epicurus against the Stoics, Platonists, and Aristotelians. It is more narrowly focused than the Epicurean...
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The Reason For The Philosophic Fighting, In The Words of Cicero’s Epicurean Speaker
There’s an important issue behind the Epicurean rejection of “Stoic” ideas which can be seen in a brief selection from Cicero. At the beginning of the Epicurean section of On...
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Defending Epicurus In 1858: “One Epicurus can do more to advance human happiness than a thousand Zenos.”
“HELEN BERNE” An Original Novellette for the Chronicle By R. W. Thomas Clarksville Chronicle, Clarksville Tennessee, Friday, August 13, 1858. (Excerpt from Chapter XV) If all persons of your age,...
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Toward A Better Understanding Of Epicurus: Eight Areas Of Focus For 2015
My goal in writing about Epicurus is to point the way to happier living today through Epicurean philosophy. Only historians and academics are interested in detail for the sake of...
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Two More Reflections On Epicurean Philosophy In the Renaissance
In the Cambridge book that contains the Cosma Raimondi letter cited here several days ago, there is the following paragraph, which is part of an introduction of a brief passage...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of December: Follow the Evidence to Happiness and Health
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! [In preparing this post for today’s Twentieth memorial, it was my intention to focus on a...
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A Refresher On Epicurean Basics
We tend to spend a lot of time on particular issues of interest to people who already have a fundamental orientation to Epicurus. If you know the basics, then you’re...
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New Spanish Language Translation of “A Few Days In Athens”
For the first time in history (so far as I am aware), Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens” is now available in Spanish! Many thanks go to Hiram Crespo...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November: Thomas Jefferson’s Personal Outline of Epicurean Philosophy
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Earlier this week I posted a new topical outline to a book on Epicurean philosophy which...