Category: Memorable Concepts
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Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy – An Outline
Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy – Click here for larger text, here for smaller text, and here for frame-free version. Please click here for dispute as to translation of PD6. This outline represents my latest...
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More Thoughts On The Limits of Simple Living
A good friend cited today a link to a short article on Epicureanism at “My Left Wing.” This rather short article makes a good point, but I would still put...
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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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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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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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On Long And Short Arguments, Vatican Saying 26, And Lucretius
Today I used VS 26 “One must presume that long and short arguments contribute to the same end,” in a post on Facebook, but in using it in a context...
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“If You Reject Absolutely Any Single Sensation … You Will Reject Every Standard of Truth.”
Yesterday I had the opportunity to spend some quality time with a close friend and discuss philosophy. As we inevitably got to the point of discussing the “origin of the...
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“Reasoning In Accordance With The Facts”
I have been reminded that I regularly make fairly pointed comments on the topic of “reason,” and I want to take this opportunity to explain why. This post is especially...
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The True Context of Virtue Is Not Original Sin But “Original Honesty”
I return again and again to the topic of “virtue” because I have a concept of virtue embedded in my mind from pre-Epicurean days which I need to un-learn. Epicurus’...
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Leave Apathy To The Stoics, and Strive to “Never Be Taken By Surprise.”
There is an unfortunate strain of thought which poses a significant danger for those who do not discern the important differences between Epicurean and Stoic theory. Straying onto the Stoic...