Author: Cassius Amicus
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Behold the Face of a Gleeful Epicurean: Norman Wentworth DeWitt
Readers of the NewEpicurean blog will know the great esteem in which I hold the work of Professor Norman W. DeWitt, author of Epicurus and His Philosophy. Neither that work...
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A Sketch On The Nature of the Gods
A recent exchange on Facebook led me to compose the following short sketch on the Epicurean view of the gods. Please keep in mind this is one of the most...
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An Ebook Collection Of The Basic Texts – “A Life Worthy Of The Gods”
Today I have added to the website a new epub: “A Life Worthy of the Gods – The Life and Work of Epicurus” which may be downloaded here or, as...
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“You, Father, Found The Truth” – A Combined Father’s Day and Twentieth Message
The opening of Lucretius’ Book III is a particularly appropriate text for father’s day, but in addition I would like to point out something I see as an error that...
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In Explanation of “Anticipations”: An Interesting Analogy From Norman DeWitt, And A Suggestion From Seneca
I now tend to think that the best in-depth explanation and defense of “Anticipations,” under the name of “Innate Principles,” has been given to us by Jackson Barwis in his...
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“Do you, then, interrogated I, maintain the reality of innate principles? I do, answered he in a firm tone; and I hope, for the sake of sound morals and of truth, important objects with you, to convince you of that reality.”
Today’s post is a much-revised introduction to the Jackson Barwis Ebook, On Three Legs We Stand. Why spend time with Jackson Barwis? Because if Epicurus was right, and if the...
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An Enlightened Exchange Between Friends On The Absurdity of the Doctrine of Necessity
One of the major implications of the First Principle Doctrine is that the doctrine of Necessity, in all its forms, is absurd and monstrous. As Epicurus wrote in his letter...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of May!
“Genial, Reasonable, Yet Resolute” My thought for the day was prompted by a line from “St. Paul and Epicurus,” wherein Norman Dewitt stated that “[T]he philosophy of Epicurus was animated...
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I Choose Epicurus
I choose to live my life in gratitude to the Nature that produced and sustains me. I therefore gladly choose Epicurus as my guide, and I choose to remind myself...
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A Twentieth message For April from Diogenes of Oinoanda
Once again I am late with my “happy twentieth” message. I had the best of intentions to start a series of these based on the Epicurean Inscription of Diogenes of...