This is to start planning a special podcast episode devoted to the topic: Epicurus Against the Stoics.
Please post ideas for organization and topics to cover initial thoughts are:
- Introduction of panelists
- Basic issues on which Stoics and Epicureans disagree
- Physics / Nature of the Universe
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Examples where these arguments are featured:
- Frances Wright A Few Days in Athens, especially the debate between Epicurus and Zeno
- The letter of Cosma Raimondi
- The statements of Thomas Jefferson condemning Stoicism
- The statements of Frederich Nietzsche condemning Stoicism
- Summary and conclusions
- Eclecticism / combination of the two is not the answer
Resources / references to use for the episode: