Category: Featured
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Brutus vs. Cassius, Stoic v. Epicurean
I am nearing the end of reading R.D. Hicks’ Stoics And Epicureans, and I am at the same time beginning to go from start to finish through the ten books...
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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...