Why Is the Subject of “Limits” Important?
Do you see why the subject of “limits” was so important to Epicurus that the word is found no less than thirteen times over nine of the forty Principle Doctrines?...
Category: Against Platonism
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“Nothing Is Desirable In and Of Itself Other Than Pleasure” – The Importance of the Argument Against Virtue As An End In Itself
Do you see why an Epicurean, in speaking about virtue, will never admit that a thing can be virtuous unless that thing is either pleasurable or leads to pleasure? Do...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September – Epicurus vs. Plato – Part 1 – “Gorgias”
It is my view that one of the most important things we can do to better understand Epicurus is to study the majority opinion of the leading philosophers who came...
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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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Twilight of the “Absence of Pain”
In a recent discussion a friend wrote: “Cassius’ fictional man who suggests suicide to prevent desires is, as Elli Pensa said, a very ridiculous man.” Why? What if Pythocles were...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February: Epicurus vs. Aristotle and Plato on Pleasure
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! To summarize some observations from a recent thread on the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook group, it appears...
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Is Pleasure An “Attitude” or a “Sense”?
Is Pleasure an “attitude”? I am currently reading up on the background of PD3 and PD4, because I think they need to be viewed in the context of the world...
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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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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...