Category: Introductory Material
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New Location For Core Reference Texts – Epicureandocs.com
This is to announce the launch of my latest website – Epicureandocs.com. The purpose of this new site is to improve my ability to provide reliable and easy access to...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July – “Conceiving The Good”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! On this Twentieth of July I’d like to simply highlight one short passage...
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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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Emotionlessness? The Epicurean View Is the *Deeper* Experience of Emotion!
We frequently get into discussions in which some people contend that the goal of life is to achieve implacable emotionlessness. The Epicurean view of “tranquility” does not require this, because...
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The Wider Implications Of The Epicurean Warnings About Passionate Love
One of the most troublesome topics used by those who erroneously advocate the view that Epicurus taught “ascetic quietism” is the advice given in Vatican Saying 51. Here is Vatican...
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Epicurus Overcame The Terror Of Religion And Showed Us How To Live According to Nature
I am continuing to work on my “Message of the Epicureans” outline as a method of presenting Epicurean philosophy in a systematic way. I won’t do this for every item, but...
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Outlines and More Outlines – “The main heads [to which] we must continually return…”
The opening of Epicurus’ letter to Herodotus: For those who are unable to study carefully all my physical writings or to go into the longer treatises at all, I have...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January – The Limits of Education And the Need to Be “Well Constituted”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Happy Twentieth! Today’s thought comes from 3 Lucretius, where the poet discusses that the nature of...
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Happy Epicurean New Year!
Let me add my own “Happy New Year” greeting to everyone here. As I enter my sixth year of focused attention to studying the philosophy of Epicurus, there are a...
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Dawn of A New Age Of Epicurus
If you follow the world of politics, the last ten days in the USA have provided an important reminder: where passions run high, truth is often the first casualty. If...