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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April: Epicureanism for the sake of Epicureanism?
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! For today’s Twentieth I want to pick up on a mention made in a recent post by Hiram at the Society of Epicurus. Hiram referred to the statement of Lucian in …
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A Modern Argument Against the Mathematicians
Thanks to a post from a kindly friend in Poland, I have just learned about a youtube presentation entitled “What is Physics?” presented at a recent conference in Salzburg, Austria. The presenter, Bill Gaede, is a physicist currently living in Argentina. I believe he does …
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Announcement of New “Epicurean Philosophy” Facebook Group
I do not usually cross-post my “This Week in Epicureanism” Facebook posts here to the main web page, but this time the update contains an announcement of a new Facebook group that is worth checking out. I know some number (not sure how many) of …
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Unsung Heroes of Epicureanism: Philonides of Laodicea
One of the more important proponents of Epicureanism in the ancient world, whose efforts are known but little remembered today, was Philonides of Laodicea. Philonides was an Epicurean philosopher based in Antioch some 150 years before Christ. Here is his entry in Wikipedia: Philonides (c. 200 – c. …
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