Author: Cassius Amicus
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The Error of Seeing Epicurean Pleasure Through Stoic Eyes
Readers of this blog know that I post comments on my reading as I study. Today I have an excerpt from R.D. Hicks’ “Stoics And Epicureans” that I think illustrates...
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Three Diagrams On The Faculty of Pleasure And Pain, Illustrating Principal Doctrines Three, Four, And Eighteen
Here are three diagrams I have drafted to use as aids in discussing Principal Doctrines Three, Four, and Eighteen. I hope to refine these much further, so if you have...
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A “Map View” of “A Few Days In Athens” and the World of Epicurus
This is a work in progress, folks, but I will post updates as the work proceeds. Hopefully this will be helpful both for new readers of Frances Wright’s “A Few...
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On Cicero and Errors In The Standard View of Katastematic Pleasure – A Great Article by Mathew Wenham
Unfortunately at this moment I do not have time for much more than what I’ve already written in the title, but here is the gist of it. Tonight, thanks to...
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Strike Blows For Epicurus In The Way He Advised – With Compassion
Two recent internet blogs have afforded an unusually good opportunity to “strike a blow for Epicurus.” The two blog entries are “Epicureanism and Regret in Modern Culture” at TheAmericanConservative.com and...
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Peace and Safety For Your November 20th – The Truth About Jefferson and Stoicism
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! On this Twentieth of November, I want to comment on a blog post that is unhappy...
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Epicurean Assistance for Well-Meaning Fans of Ayn Rand
An Epicurean friend has asked me about a subject that comes up repeatedly. He has a friend who is familiar with the work of Ayn Rand, and the friend is...
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Wordsmiths Needed: Revisiting Horace and Book III, Ode XXIX “To Maecenas”
I have blogged before on Horace’s Ode 3, 29, but upon coming today once again on a cite to John Dryden’s “Happy the Man,” which is based directly on this...
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On the Pedantry of Aristotle (and Stoicism and Platonism too!)
I confess that “pedantry” is a word I rarely if ever use, and hardly know the meaning. Here is wikipedia: “A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision, or...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October! Down With The Geometers!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! David Furley, in his Two Studies in the Greek Atomists, directs our attention to both “indivisible...