Category: Featured
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**New Audio Version** Cicero’s “Defense of Epicurus” from “On Ends”
Of all the ancient Epicurean texts, this is the one I have always found the most clear and compelling to listen to. And of course ironies of ironies, this is...
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Frances Wright On The Proper Epicurean Attitude Toward Those With Whom We Disagree
This weekend in reviewing a number of different items in a number of contexts, I had reason to revisit a section of “A Few Days In Athens” that concerns something...
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Stoic vs. Epicurean: The Confrontation Between Zeno And Epicurus in Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens”
Many fans of Epicurus have only a passing understanding of the inherent and irreconcilable conflict between Epicureanism and Stoicism. An excellent presentation of those differences can be found in Chapter...
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New Audio Presentation of The Letter to Herodotus
[Latest Updated Version in MP3 here.] [Vimeo Edition] Of all the original texts that are available from the ancient world, Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus preserved by Diogenes Laertius is our...
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New Project: Returning the Eternal Light of Epicureanism to England! And Your Help is Needed!
**New Project: Returning the Eternal Light of Epicureanism to England!** The Roman coin pictured here contains the inscription “Redditor Lucis Aeterna,” which can loosely be translated as “Rebringer of the...
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Peace and Safety for your Twentieth of June – May you have many smooth and agreeable motions today!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! One of the great benefits I have found from Facebook is talking with friends about fine...
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Elemental Epicureanism
[For the new web site dedicated to this project click here.] Previously included as an Appendix to the ebook version of Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens” is an...
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Recent Thoughts On Anticipations, The Canon, and Reason
Here are some thoughts I exchanged today with several friends from the Facebook page. I post them here not because they are particularly insightful or definitive, but because the subject...
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Toward A “Jefferson Dictionary” of Epicurean Terminology
In his letter to William Short, Thomas Jefferson left us a useful outline of major points of Epicurean doctrine. I have long admired that list, and now that recent studies...