What Type of Epicurean Are You?
First attempt at a meme to dramatize this question:
Category: Stoicism (Against)
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February: “What Destroys A Man More Quickly Than To Work, Think, and Feel … Without Any Deep Personal Desire…?”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! In the days since our last Twentieth we’ve had, in the Epicurean Philosophy...
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Top Problematic Attitude and “Life Premise” Issues Made Worse By Stoicism and Cured by Epicurean Philosophy
With the assistance of input from the Facebook group, I have been working on a list of basic “attitude” or “life premise” divergences that separate Epicurean v Stoic views. I...
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How Do We Meet Seneca’s Stoic Argument: “The ability to increase is proof that a thing is still imperfect.”
PD3: The limit of quantity in pleasures is the removal of all that is painful. Wherever pleasure is present, as long as it is there, there is neither pain of...
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A Comparison Chart on “The Goal of Life”
On a regular basis I like to drop back and summarize what I understand to be some of the key differences between Epicurean and other philosophies. This weekend I put...
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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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The Epicurean “Method of Analogy” in Philodemus, And Its Vital Importance to Us
What do we do when we are confronted by differences of opinion among people who believe very strongly in their ideals, even though those ideals vary tremendously from person to...
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Purging Yourself of Stoicism
I believe the most important task that any modern student of Epicurus can do is to examine his or her own thoughts to identify the Stoicisms that have been absorbed...
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“Why” Comes Before “How”
Here is a pattern I am seeing over and over: Some people just cannot or will not admit that “why” must come before “how” in deciding how to live one’s...
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Where Is the Misunderstanding / Misrepresentation More Likely?
Here is a passage from Francois Bernier, a friend of Gassendi, which I have never read before, but exists at Epicurus.info. It seems to me it illustrates exactly the problem...