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Installment Two of “Compare And Contrast” Memes: Epicurus v. Heraclitus
Here is installment 2 in an anticipated “compare and contrast” series of memes for internet distribution. This one has been prepared entirely in INKSCAPE, a free vector graphics program that runs on both windows and linux. More details about how this was produced, and how …
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A Happy Holiday Season To Us All!
Here’s a link to a new and very good essay by Hiram at the International Society of Epicurus: “Why Materialism Matters.” I am in the middle of some reading that tracks closely what he is saying, and I want to add a few words. It is …
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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 the world outside the garden go to hell.” Is that true, or the worst kind …
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An Aristotelian Indictment Against Epicurus
Since at least the time of Cicero, Epicurus and his philosophy have been vigorously attacked by Platonists, Stoics, Peripatetics, Skeptics, and all varieties in between. The attack continues to this day. We are all familiar with the standard religious critique of Epicurus, but for today’s …
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Gassendi’s Epicurus: Live Neither As A Lion Nor As A Gnat
From page 239 of Thomas Stanley’s translation of Gassendi. I advise that every man should examine his own genius, and advise with himself, that he may apply himself to that which is proper for him; because otherwise, nothing can be more miserable, and more at …
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Gassendi On The Active Epicurean Life: Gliding Firm Like a River
From Page 232 of Thomas Stanley’s Translation of Gassendi: [Some criticize the Epicurean view of pleasure, and] [s]ome laugh hereat: They object, that this pleasure is like the condition of one that sleeps, and accuse us of sloath, never considering that this constitution of ours …
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