Files by Cassius

File List

The EpicureanFriends Files section is where our Level 3 and above participants store longer documents created offsite which are of special interest to the study of Epicurus. You can use the "Categories" box on the right to find specific sections of the library.

  1. Epicurus: The Summum Bonum Fallacy

    • Cassius
    • February 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM
    The aim of this article is to show how the lack of a definite article in Latin obliterated the doctrine of Epicurus that life itself and not pleasure is the greatest good.
    • 596 Downloads

  2. Nikolsky - Epicurus On Pleasure

    • Cassius
    • January 13, 2018 at 6:54 PM
    One of the most important articles on this site: Boris Nikolsky Details The Questionable Heritage of the "Kinetic / Katestematic" Distinction.
    • 485 Downloads

  3. Sedley: "Epicurus' Refutation of Determinism"

    • Cassius
    • June 3, 2020 at 8:40 AM
    1983 Paper which is the one of the best treatments of Epicurus' view of the Free Will / Agency / Determinism issue available.
    • 389 Downloads

  4. Gosling & Taylor - On Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure

    • Cassius
    • February 3, 2018 at 1:28 PM
    Gosling & Taylor on Katastematic and Kinetic Pleasure
    • 376 Downloads

  5. Mathew Wenham - On Cicero's Interpretation of Katastematic Pleasure In Epicurus

    • Cassius
    • June 30, 2022 at 8:34 AM
    The standard interpretation of the concept of katastematic pleasure in Epicurus .... leads to fundamental contradictions in his theory. I claim that it is not Epicurus, but the standard interpretation that generates these errors...
    • 366 Downloads

  6. How Became Known To Us The Portrait of The Athenian Philosopher Epicurus - Takis Pangiotopoulos -

    • Cassius
    • May 26, 2021 at 8:29 AM
    Takis' summary of the history of the identification of Epicurus through artwork
    • 351 Downloads

  7. GRZELAK: The Presence of Ethical Teaching in De Rerum Natura of Lucretius

    • Cassius
    • February 7, 2020 at 7:05 AM
    Highlighting the Ethical Aspects of Lucretius' poem
    • 320 Downloads

  8. Philodemus - A Study Of His Ethical Works

    • Cassius
    • March 20, 2019 at 10:26 PM
    Philodemus
    • 319 Downloads

  9. "Epicurus' Last Will and Testament" - by Diskin Clay

    • Cassius
    • January 23, 2021 at 3:15 PM
    Article by Diskin Clay
    • 316 Downloads

  10. Morel - "Method and Evidence: On Epicurean Preconception"

    • Cassius
    • June 25, 2021 at 3:52 PM
    Article on Epicurean preconceptions
    • 314 Downloads

  11. Epicurean Preconceptions - Tsouna

    • Cassius
    • April 13, 2019 at 11:14 PM
    Epicurean Preconceptions
    • 308 Downloads

  12. Packer (Mary Porter) - "Cicero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics"

    • Cassius
    • May 2, 2019 at 2:14 PM
    Packer (Mary Porter) - "Cicero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics"
    • 304 Downloads

  13. DeWitt on Isonomy

    • Cassius
    • January 22, 2018 at 1:51 PM
    DeWitt on Isonomy, one of the Epicurean arguments for divinity
    • 301 Downloads

  14. Lion of Epicurus - Lucian And His Epicurean Passages

    • Cassius
    • March 2, 2022 at 6:10 AM
    Epub Collection of Works By Lucian Concerning Epicurus
    • Like 1
    • 296 Downloads

  15. Chilton - Did Epicurus Approve of Marriage

    • Cassius
    • January 28, 2020 at 8:09 AM
    Chilton - Did Epicurus Approve of Marriage
    • 283 Downloads

  16. Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 2 - 1836

    • Cassius
    • September 24, 2020 at 6:53 AM
    Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 2 - 1836
    • 278 Downloads

  17. Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" - Volume 1 1829

    • Cassius
    • September 24, 2020 at 6:48 AM
    Frances Wright's "Course of Popular Lectures" 1829
    • 271 Downloads

  18. Epicurean Prolepsis - David Glidden

    • Cassius
    • February 21, 2023 at 8:00 PM
    Excellent article on Epicurean Prolepsis, arguing that both the account of Cicero and of Diogenes Laertius give distorted views of preconceptions.
    • 270 Downloads

  19. David Glidden - Aristotelian Perception and the Problem of Hellenistic Representation

    • Cassius
    • March 8, 2023 at 6:45 PM
    David Glidden on the view of representation in Hellenistic thought (relevant to Epicurean epistemology and anticipations).
    • 269 Downloads

  20. CIcero's Presentation of Epicurean Ethics - By Mary Porter Packer (1938)

    • Cassius
    • February 16, 2022 at 1:27 PM
    A study based primarily on De Finibus I and II
    • Like 1
    • 264 Downloads

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