Category: Gassendi
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New Page Dedicated to Gassendi’s “Life And Doctrines of Epicurus”
I have today taken a step toward correcting a major oversight. Last year several of us undertook the work of transcribing a copy of Pierre Gassendi’s “Life and Doctrine of...
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“These Shall Be To Thee Both Pythian and Delian”
One of the things that gives me most pleasure from collaborating with other fans of Epicurus is to uncover texts that are new to me and that go far beyond...
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Does “The true Epicurean lives inside his walls with a few close friends and let the world outside the garden go to hell?”
Included in item 15 of the “indictment of Epicureanism” that I recently posted is the charge “The true Epicurean lives inside his walls with a few close friends and let...
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Gassendi’s Epicurus: Live Neither As A Lion Nor As A Gnat
From page 239 of Thomas Stanley’s translation of Gassendi. I advise that every man should examine his own genius, and advise with himself, that he may apply himself to that...
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Gassendi On The Active Epicurean Life: Gliding Firm Like a River
From Page 232 of Thomas Stanley’s Translation of Gassendi: [Some criticize the Epicurean view of pleasure, and] [s]ome laugh hereat: They object, that this pleasure is like the condition of...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of December! Today, A Passage from Gassendi on Felicity in Epicureanism
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! On this Twentieth of December, in the midst of a holiday season in much of the...
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Derivation of the “Riddle of Epicurus”
Epicurus’ “riddle” is cited often on the internet, even in video form. As Wikipedia points out, however, “Epicurus himself did not leave any written form of this argument.” As the...
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Pierre Gassendi on Epicureanism vs. Skepticism
From Page 130 of the Stanley translation of Gassendi’s “De Vita & Moribus Epicuri:” For this reason, a wise man will neither hearken to the Fables of Poets, nor will...
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One of the First English Translations of Gassendi’s “Life And Doctrine Of Epicurus”
In 1660, Thomas Stanley published “A History of Philosophy,” Volume Three of Which Contained “Epicurus, His Life And Doctrine” Written By Petrus Gassendus.” This is of interest for many reasons,...