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How Do We Meet Seneca’s Stoic Argument: “The ability to increase is proof that a thing is still imperfect.”
PD3: The limit of quantity in pleasures is the removal of all that is painful. Wherever pleasure is present, as long as it is there, there is neither pain of...
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The Sixth Annual Panhellenic Symposium On Epicurean Philosophy Is This Weekend (Feb. 6) In Athens!
Here is a link to the main page for the Symposium, with part of their agenda below: Contact us ideoszen@gmail.com …. Official Site in greek language www.epicuros.gr 6th Panhellenic Symposium...
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The Epicurean “Method of Analogy” in Philodemus, And Its Vital Importance to Us
What do we do when we are confronted by differences of opinion among people who believe very strongly in their ideals, even though those ideals vary tremendously from person to...
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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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Toward A Better Understanding Of Epicurus: Eight Areas Of Focus For 2015
My goal in writing about Epicurus is to point the way to happier living today through Epicurean philosophy. Only historians and academics are interested in detail for the sake of...
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Hiram Crespo’s “Tending the Epicurean Garden”
I have been meaning to write a more extended review of this new book, but I don’t want to wait any longer to post about it. Hiram’s recently-released “Tending the...
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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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Is That All There Is? The Sad Ending of R. D. Hicks’ “Stoics And Epicureans”
I have read now to the conclusion of “Stoics And Epicureans,” a well-known work that contains much excellent information about Stoicism and Epicureanism. As I went through it, I collected...
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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...
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A Season Of The Year To Remember Fallen Epicureans
[As we appear to be on the verge of escalating another ill-considered war, this time in Syria, the following post, which is a repeat of a topic I have repeated...