Blog Articles in Category “Epicurean History”

Below is the Wikipedia introduction to Epicurus as of 02/06/20. I will highlight in red, and add a footnote to each statement which I contend is in serious need of correction or amplification.

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From Diogenes Laertius, Book 10 (The Biography of Epicurus), we read something that may lead us again to revisit the matter of the apparent chronic ill health of Epicurus, and how the great…

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JC:


Hi Cassius. I'm sorry to badger you about this again, but I'm still trying to get my head around the pleasure principle. From my reading, all scholars agree that Epicurus divides pleasure into…

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WE AND THE STOICS TODAY, or “To Those from the Stoa”

by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos, member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki

27.11.2015


A proposition about Stoicism on an Epicurean website causes…

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Epicurean Influences On The Enlightenment

by Dimitris Altas, Cardiologist, member of the epicurean team epicuros21, Thessaloniki, Hellas.



EPICUREAN INFLUENCES ON ENLIGHTENMENT.jpg In 1453 the…

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Selection_999(359).jpg Understanding Epicurus takes considerable effort, but not because the doctrines are difficult - they're not! The problem is that Epicurean philosophy has been heavily…

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You Have Been Deceived!

You have been deceived.

If you are hearing these words in the early years of the twenty-first century, then you have already wasted much of your life dealing with nonsense.

If…

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Epicurean Basics (Discussion of the Article At the Epicurus Facebook Page)

Epicurean philosophy is best known for its advocacy of “Pleasure” as the guide to life. Epicurus taught that Nature…

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