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• Category: A Few Days In Athens
  • In Response to Anti-Materialist Arguments That Limitations in Physics Should Cause us Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of December: Follow the Evidence to Happiness and Health
  • New Spanish Language Translation of “A Few Days In Athens”
  • New Table of Contents / Finding Aid For “A Few Days In Athens”
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of September! – On Pain That Cannot Be Avoided
  • “How Do I Most Quickly Learn The Basics Of Epicurean Philosophy?”
  • Frances Wright on Epicurean Virtue vs. “Virtue” In The Other Philosophies
  • Objectivism: The “Worst and Most Dangerous” Philosophy In America
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of June: On the Futility of “Argument”
  • Updated MP3 Version of “A Few Days In Athens”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January!
  • Announcing the Launching of “AFewDaysInAthens.com”
  • A “Map View” of “A Few Days In Athens” and the World of Epicurus
  • Strike Blows For Epicurus In The Way He Advised – With Compassion
  • Frances Wright On The Proper Epicurean Attitude Toward Those With Whom We Disagree
  • Stoic vs. Epicurean: The Confrontation Between Zeno And Epicurus in Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens”
  • “Tell me not, Zeno, that the teacher is vicious who washes depravity from the youthful heart; who lays the storm of its passions, and turns all its sensibilities to good.”
  • The Book On Epicurus Thomas Jefferson Called “A Treat To Me Of The Highest Order” – A FEW DAYS IN ATHENS
• Category: Against Hegel
  • The Weeping Philosopher vs the Laughing Philosopher(s)
• Category: Against Heraclitus
  • Installment Two of “Compare And Contrast” Memes: Epicurus v. Heraclitus
• Category: Against Platonism
  • Why Is the Subject of “Limits” Important?
  • “Nothing Is Desirable In and Of Itself Other Than Pleasure” – The Importance of the Argument Against Virtue As An End In Itself
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September – Epicurus vs. Plato – Part 1 – “Gorgias”
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of December – Doubt Is Unpleasant, But It’s Not The Worst Enemy!
  • Twilight of the “Absence of Pain”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February: Epicurus vs. Aristotle and Plato on Pleasure
  • Is Pleasure An “Attitude” or a “Sense”?
  • Cosma Raimondi – Defender of Epicurus 200 Years Before Gassendi
  • The Reason For The Philosophic Fighting, In The Words of Cicero’s Epicurean Speaker
  • Toward A Better Understanding Of Epicurus: Eight Areas Of Focus For 2015
  • Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of August – On Saving Ourselves From Servitude And Folly
  • Hugh Munro On The Merits of Epicurus vs. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics
  • Epicurus v. Cicero on Natural Law and Justice
  • An Aristotelian Indictment Against Epicurus
  • Epicurus: Against Skepticism
  • Is That All There Is? The Sad Ending of R. D. Hicks’ “Stoics And Epicureans”
  • Brutus vs. Cassius, Stoic v. Epicurean
  • The Error of Seeing Epicurean Pleasure Through Stoic Eyes
  • On the Pedantry of Aristotle (and Stoicism and Platonism too!)
  • Against Aristotle / In Support Of The Romulans
  • New Ebook: “Against The Men of the Crowd”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of August, and A Few Thoughts on The Folly of Thinking Virtue Is Its Own Reward
  • New Video Discussing Epicurus: “Good Without God”
  • Explaining the True Nature of Life as a Pleasure: The Example of the Statue’s Hand
  • A Video Helpful For Highlighting Differences Between Epicureanism and Stoicism
  • Epicurus On The Meaning of “Good”
  • It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names [such as Plato] so artificially magnified.
  • “Failure of Nerve?” Or “Failure to Pay Attention?”
  • “If You Reject Absolutely Any Single Sensation … You Will Reject Every Standard of Truth.”
  • Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of August!
  • “Reasoning In Accordance With The Facts”
  • It All Comes Down To This. Take Your Stand, And Know Why You Take It.
  • Celebrating 2000 Years of Epicurean Contempt For Stoicism and Platonism: Lucian of Samosata and His Dialog “The Double Indictment”
  • The True Context of Virtue Is Not Original Sin But “Original Honesty”
  • Should “Lady Justice” Be Blindfolded?
  • “Against The Vulcans”
  • Do Harpsichords Go Sledding In the Snow For Fun?
  • St. Paul vs. Epicurus
  • Leave Apathy To The Stoics, and Strive to “Never Be Taken By Surprise.”
  • The Key To Distinguishing The “Greatest Good” from the “Goal” of Life: “Every supreme good … is meaningless to the dead; every supreme good presumes life.”
  • Random? A Fluke? The Rise of Man and the Better View of “Chance and Natural Law In Epicureanism”
  • “They have only to draw some circles, arrange a few triangles and squares, add certain complicated spheres, and lo, they have the cubic contents of Heaven.”
  • If I have to choose between Platonic mathematicians telling me that reality doesn’t exist, and Epicurean philosophers telling me the sun may be the size of a basketball, I’ll live happily choosing the basketball, thank you.
  • “It was Epicurus’ Determination to Dethrone Reason and Set Up Nature As the Norm.”
  • The Peril of “Blind Reason”
  • Comments On The Role of “Reason” In Epicureanism
  • “The Altruist In Politics” – Nathan Cardozo’s Address Against The Platonist Roots of Doctrinaire Socialism and Communism
  • Mr. Spock Was Not An Epicurean God
  • The Seductive Dead-End of Stoicism
  • Even For Physicists, It Is Not Possible To Live Happily Unless One Lives Wisely, Honorably, and Justly…..
  • For Your Twentieth of July: Dispelling the Myth That Epicurus Was An Enemy of All Culture
  • Against Plato III (And to a lesser extent, Aristotle too)
  • Against Plato II – The Commentary of Thomas Jefferson
  • Against Plato
• Category: Anticipations
  • Anticipations, Heat, and Patterns of Behavior
  • Happy Twentieth of June! – Born To Seek Pleasure And To Overcome Pain
  • Describing, Without Answering, An Important Issue – the Nature of “Anticipations” and “Present Impressions of the Mind”
  • More on the “Moral Sense”
  • Recent Thoughts On Anticipations, The Canon, and Reason
  • “Joy And Cheerfulness Are Beheld in Motion And Energy”
  • Doctrine 24: The Master Instrument of the Architect of Human Happiness
  • In Thanks For Another Happy Year at NewEpicurean.com
  • Following A 2000-Year Trail In Pursuit of “Anticipations”
  • Thomas Jefferson On Anticipations
  • A Sketch On The Nature of the Gods
  • “You, Father, Found The Truth” – A Combined Father’s Day and Twentieth Message
  • In Explanation of “Anticipations”: An Interesting Analogy From Norman DeWitt, And A Suggestion From Seneca
  • “Do you, then, interrogated I, maintain the reality of innate principles? I do, answered he in a firm tone; and I hope, for the sake of sound morals and of truth, important objects with you, to convince you of that reality.”
• Category: Aristotle (Against)
  • Thomas Aquinas v. Epicurus – On The Nature of Pleasure
  • “Contributions of the Herculanean Papyri To Our Knowledge of Epicurean Logic”
  • The Meaning of “The Good” – A Gem From Plutarch Through Bailey and Epicurus.Info
  • Epicurean Assistance for Well-Meaning Fans of Ayn Rand
• Category: Athens Group
  • On The Need For the European Union To Adopt The Epicurean Concept of “Pursuit of Happiness” As A Human Right
  • Announcement for the Upcoming Conference in Athens Feb 15-16, 2014
• Category: Audio-Video
  • Epicurus’ Letter to Pythocles – Elemental Edition
  • Epicurus’ Letter To Menoeceus – Elemental Edition
  • **New Audio Version** Cicero’s “Defense of Epicurus” from “On Ends”
  • New Audio Presentation of The Letter to Herodotus
  • Catius Cat Purrs Again: “Catius Cat And The Forty Mice”
  • “Thus Purred Catius’ Cat” – A New Exercise In Summarizing Basic Epicurean Doctrine
• Category: Calculation
  • Epicureanism Applied 2000 Years Later By Thomas Jefferson: “Everything in this world is a matter of calculation.”
• Category: Cassius the Liberator
  • Note on the Last Words of Brutus – From Cassius Dio, Not Plutarch
  • A Brief Good Word About the Platonists – At the Expense of the Stoics
  • A Season of the Year To Remember Fallen Epicureans
  • The Example of Cassius The Liberator Shows The Way
• Category: Catius' Cat
• Category: Cicero
• Category: Cosma Raimondi
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of August!
  • Two More Reflections On Epicurean Philosophy In the Renaissance
• Category: Cynicism (Against)
  • A Nexus Between Epicurean Doctrines 31-38, Thomas Jefferson, The Ukraine, and MH370
  • Pride, Vanity, Ambition … and Cynicism
• Category: Diogenes Laertius
  • Epicurus’ Citations To Homer
• Category: Diogenes of Oinoanda
  • New Audio “Reconstructed” Version of the Inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda
  • Suggestions On Being “Well-Constituted”
  • Proud to Be Apikoros!
  • Who Will Choose To Seek What He Can Never Find? – An Exercise in Summarizing the Epicurean Inscription by Diogenes of Oinoanda
  • A Twentieth message For April from Diogenes of Oinoanda
• Category: Eclecticism (Against)
  • The Soul of the Epicurean Warrior Does Not Live on Chicken Soup
• Category: Epicurean Art
  • Takis Panagiotopoulos: “How Became Known To Us The Portrait of The Athenian Philosopher Epicurus”
  • Our Friend and Mascot: The Pig
  • An Epicurean Message Hits Home 2000 Years Later In London
  • What the World Needs Now: Thoughts on Peter St. Andre’s “Letters on Epicurus: A Dialogue about Happiness”
  • The Poet, The Monument-Builder, And Us
  • What Would You Like Inscribed On Your Ring?
  • By The Way, Our Friends of Epicurus In The Homeland Appreciate It When You Call Them “Hellenes” Rather Than “Greeks”
  • “It Is Not Enough To Live Well; One Must Also Die Well.”
  • Bernard Frischer Updates the Digital Reconstruction of the Sculpture of Epicurus!
  • The Tripod of Truth
  • The Epicurus Sculpture Digital Re-creation
  • Illustrating Epicureanism Through A Pompeian Mosaic
  • Epicurean Art in the Ancient World
• Category: Epicurean Websites
  • Don’t Fall Short – Draft Your Own Personal Outline of Epicurean Philosophy
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of March – It’s Time To Rescue Venus!
  • Updated Report With Many Photos And Details – The Fifth Pan-Hellenic Symposium on Epicurus
  • Hiram Crespo’s “Tending the Epicurean Garden”
  • “Epicurean Analysis” By Peter St. Andre
  • First New Epicurean Blog of March – “Epicurean Practice” – And A Few Words on The Goal of Epicureanism
  • Another New Epicurean Blog: “An Epicurean Thinker”
• Category: False Religion
  • Thoughts On The Nature of “Gods” – 10/10/2017
  • A Seasonal Thought Re: “Fake News”
  • A List of Events Documenting Christian Persecution of Hellenes In The Ancient World
  • Nietzsche, Epicurus, And The Most Successful Double Agent In History(?)
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July: “[T]he ideas of the Deity in the minds of vulgar worshipers in general are, and ever will be, false, erroneous, and idolatrous….”
  • “One has but to read Lucretius to know what Epicurus made war upon…”
  • Happy Hanukkah To The Sadducees!!
  • Peter Saint-Andre On The Possible Epicurean Basis for the “Seven Deadly Sins”
  • Mysticism, The Gods, And the Epicurean Rules of Evidence
  • “How To Be Dead And Not Care”
  • “Epicurus had triumphed, and every respectable intellect in Rome was Epicurean—when Paul appeared.”
  • In The Epicurean Tradition of Lucian, Consider – “Do The Gods of Kolob Rant?”
• Category: Featured
  • A Combination of Illustrations: Seize the Day In 2018 To Fill The Jar Of Life
  • A Brief Synopsis Of Thoughts On Epicurean Pleasure
  • An Invitation To An Epicurean 25th
  • Lucretius: Not Accidents, Not Incidents, but “Contextidents”
  • In Life, There Is No Antidote to Pain But Pleasure
  • Epicurean Basics
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of June: Haris Dimitriadis’ “Epicurus And the Pleasant Life”
  • You Have Been Deceived!
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of December 2016 – Year-End Reflections
  • New Location For Core Reference Texts – Epicureandocs.com
  • PWNING The Concern Trolls For 2000 Years
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October – Lorenzo Valla Sides With Epicurus Over the Stoics
  • Notes on “Justice”
  • Science / Physics Update
  • Comments On the “Choice of Hercules”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July – “Conceiving The Good”
  • How Do We Meet Seneca’s Stoic Argument: “The ability to increase is proof that a thing is still imperfect.”
  • A Comparison Chart on “The Goal of Life”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May – “…a small domain, the fine breath of Muses’ Grecian song, and the spiteful crowd to spurn.”
  • Lucretius: Proving That The Standard Definition of Gods Is Wrong By Appealing to the True Epicurean Gods
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April – On “Ever-Changing Desires”
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of March: If [happiness] be absent, ALL our actions are directed towards attaining it.
  • Emotionlessness? The Epicurean View Is the *Deeper* Experience of Emotion!
  • The Wider Implications Of The Epicurean Warnings About Passionate Love
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of February – Pleasure, Pain, and Erroneous Standards
  • Epicurus Overcame The Terror Of Religion And Showed Us How To Live According to Nature
  • The Sixth Annual Panhellenic Symposium On Epicurean Philosophy Is This Weekend (Feb. 6) In Athens!
  • Discussion Forum Update – EpicureanFriends.com
  • Outlines and More Outlines – “The main heads [to which] we must continually return…”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January – The Limits of Education And the Need to Be “Well Constituted”
  • Happy Epicurean New Year!
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of November – Epicurean Theory Applies To Everyone And To The Most Difficult Of Issues
  • Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum!
  • Dawn of A New Age Of Epicurus
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October – Tips on Epicurean Reasoning from Philodemus
  • The Epicurean “Method of Analogy” in Philodemus, And Its Vital Importance to Us
  • “This Week In Epicurean Philosophy”
  • “Quantity” Does Not Equal “Type”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September! – An Overview of the Letter to Herodotus
  • Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy – An Outline
  • All Dressed Up But No Place To Go
  • A Season Of The Year To Remember Fallen Epicureans
  • Is the Fountain Of Pleasure Tainted? Or Does the Taint Arise In How We Approach It?
  • Must I Believe “XXX” That Epicurus Said?
  • Things That Never Change, And Things That Do
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of August!
  • Unwinding A Confusion About the Faculty of Pleasure By Considering the Nature of Money
  • Purging Yourself of Stoicism
  • *Action* As A Requirement of Pleasure
  • The Real Troika
  • Why I Think Epicurus Would Have Hated The “Tetrapharmakon”
  • An Important Observation About A Test of “Natural and Necessary”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of June! – “Outlines”
  • Thoughts On The Natural State of Mankind
  • Pleasure and Achievement
  • On Conflicting Interpretations And Translations
  • “Why” Comes Before “How”
  • Nietzsche on Stoicism’s “Fraud of Words”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May – Reading Epicurus Reasonably – Children and PD5
  • Frances Wright and the “Counter-History of Philosophy”
  • “Follow That Dream”
  • Pleasure Is A Dish Best Served Pure and Smooth
  • Where Is the Misunderstanding / Misrepresentation More Likely?
  • Stoicism is as far from Epicurean philosophy as East is far from West.
  • Setting the Stage For Discussion of Pleasure
  • Fields, Particles, and the Reality We Live In
  • Fill Life To The Rim – With Pleasure
  • Slashing Another Stoic Chain – Courtesy of a Norse God
  • Which Is Happier?
  • The “Four Days Of Virtue And Painlessness” Challenge
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April – Conventional Pleasure vs. the “Zero State”
  • The Major Importance of “Confident Expectation”
  • Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus and The Defense of Pleasure
  • New “Fundamentals of Epicurean Philosophy” Video
  • The Painless Peter Potter Principle
  • One of the Best Presentations On The History of Epicurean Philosophy You Will Likely Ever See
  • Lucretius’ Hymn To Venus, from Book I of De Rerum Natura, Set to Music
  • Pleasure and Time – Stoics v. Epicureans
  • If Death Is Nothing To Us, What Is Everything To Us?
  • Are “Static” Pleasures Always Preferred?
  • Can’t You Hear That This Thermometer Is Wrong?
  • Of Mice, Syllables, Thermometers, and The Complete Life
  • New Page Dedicated to Gassendi’s “Life And Doctrines of Epicurus”
  • Report on the 5th Pan-Hellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of January: Symposium in Athens
  • A Refresher On Epicurean Basics
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November: Thomas Jefferson’s Personal Outline of Epicurean Philosophy
  • Announcing A New Book On Epicurus (In German): “The Epicurean Yearbook”
  • Peace and Safety For your Twentieth of October: Two Ways of Looking At Decision-Making
  • Maximize Pleasurable Living and Avoid Both Pain And Anesthesia (And the Philosophies Which Promote Them!)
  • The Epicurean Views the Modern Mind Finds Unthinkable: “Dogmatism” and “Free Will”
  • Keeping Watch With The Epicurean Chorus – Happily Thriving And Alive With Joy!
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July: “The Greater Part of Life Is Sunshine”
  • New Web Page For Lucretius
  • A Little Housekeeping on Jackson Barwis
  • “These Shall Be To Thee Both Pythian and Delian”
  • “Elemental Epicureanism” / Facebook Group Update
  • Peace and Safety And Independent Thinking For Your Twentieth of May!
  • Consolation On The Loss Of A Loved One – An Epicurean Perspective
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April: Epicureanism for the sake of Epicureanism?
  • A Modern Argument Against the Mathematicians
  • Announcement of New “Epicurean Philosophy” Facebook Group
  • Unsung Heroes of Epicureanism: Philonides of Laodicea
  • Peace, Safety, And Good News For your Twentieth of March – The Translation of Lucretius You Want For Your Library Is Now In EPUB!
  • More Thoughts On The Limits of Simple Living
  • Three Common Issues: (1) Moderation, (2) The Senses As Deceived, and (3) “Stoicism and Epicureanism Have the Same Goals.”
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of February!
  • A Happy Holiday Season To Us All!
  • Does “The true Epicurean lives inside his walls with a few close friends and let the world outside the garden go to hell?”
  • Gassendi’s Epicurus: Live Neither As A Lion Nor As A Gnat
  • Gassendi On The Active Epicurean Life: Gliding Firm Like a River
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of December! Today, A Passage from Gassendi on Felicity in Epicureanism
  • Derivation of the “Riddle of Epicurus”
  • Pierre Gassendi on Epicureanism vs. Skepticism
  • One of the First English Translations of Gassendi’s “Life And Doctrine Of Epicurus”
  • The Baseline State: Happy To Be Alive
  • “The True Nature of Pleasure” – Norman DeWitt’s Analysis of Epicurean Pleasure
  • Was Ancient Epicureanism A Suicide Club? Did the Priests do Iphigenia A Favor?
  • Three Diagrams On The Faculty of Pleasure And Pain, Illustrating Principal Doctrines Three, Four, And Eighteen
  • On Cicero and Errors In The Standard View of Katastematic Pleasure – A Great Article by Mathew Wenham
  • Peace and Safety For Your November 20th – The Truth About Jefferson and Stoicism
  • Wordsmiths Needed: Revisiting Horace and Book III, Ode XXIX “To Maecenas”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October! Down With The Geometers!
  • HAPPY BELATED TWENTIETH OF SEPTEMBER! – To Compensate for My Lateness – Links To PDFs Every Fan of Epicurus Ought To Have
  • Three-Dimensional Printed Bust of Epicurus Now Available
  • A Season Of The Year To Remember Fallen Epicureans
  • Graphics of the Founders
  • New Project: Returning the Eternal Light of Epicureanism to England! And Your Help is Needed!
  • Peace and Safety for your Twentieth of June – May you have many smooth and agreeable motions today!
  • Elemental Epicureanism
  • Toward A “Jefferson Dictionary” of Epicurean Terminology
  • What Is Happy Living?
• Category: Frances Wright
• Category: Free Will
• Category: Friendship
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July!
  • How To Live Like An Epicurean: The Example of Titus Pomponius Atticus
  • A Short Imaginary Exchange With An Epicurean Many Years Ago
  • New FAQ Entry: What Did Epicurus Have To Say About Friendship?
• Category: Gassendi
• Category: Gibbon
  • Gibbon on “An idle and extravagant opinion which was rejected with contempt by every man of a liberal education and understanding.”
  • Gibbon, The Immortality of the Soul, and Epicureanism Among Women – Part I
• Category: Gratitude
  • Epicurus On The Importance Of Gratitude
  • For “Father’s Day” in the U.S.: “You, Father, found the truth….” and saved us from folly.
  • I Choose Epicurus
  • “…I’m happy because it happened once.”
  • Gratitude As a Source of Strength During Times of Misfortune
• Category: Haris Dimitriadis
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of July – Live Like Epicurus!
• Category: Horace
  • Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) – Ode 3, 29
• Category: Images
  • Food For Thought On “Images” From the Age of Epicureanism
• Category: Inscriptions
• Category: Introductory Material
  • Handout – “Major Characteristics of the Epicurean View of Life”
  • New Handout – Applications of the Fundamentals of Nature.
  • Another Important Step Toward Correcting the Record On Epicurus and Living A Better Life Today – Haris Dimitriadis’ Epicurus and the Pleasant Life.
  • “When the Gospel of Minimalism Collides With Daily Life”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May: Better Never To Have Been Born?
  • Major Characteristics of the Epicurean View of Life
  • “Cicero’s Presentation of Epicurean Ethics” – Fake News?
  • A Response To: “How Would Epicurus Account For Depression?”
  • Proof, Not Assertion
  • On Long And Short Arguments, Vatican Saying 26, And Lucretius
  • Seneca’s Description of Epicurus’ “Supreme Good”
  • Excellent BBC Radio Interview Presentation: “Epicureanism” On Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time”
  • The “Yea-Sayers” and the “Nay-Sayers”
  • An Exercise in Epicurean Rules of Evidence: Authorized Doctrine 24
  • A Useful Recent Translation of Lucretius’ “On The Nature of Things”
  • A Few Comments On An Excellent Introductory Article
  • Never Forget That The Clock Is Ticking!
  • Epicurean Physics
  • “Our Canon Is:”
  • An Example Of Rigorous Thinking That We Would Do Well To Apply to The Study of Epicureanism
  • Research Projects: 1 – The Meaning of Key Doctrine 6
  • If The Road To Damascus Causes You Concern, Consider A Hill Named Cumorah
  • New Pro-Epicurean Book For Your Library: “Epicurus for Everyone”
  • One More Experimental Video: Hail Epicurus!
  • Program Released for the 2012 Panhellenic Symposium on Epicurean Philosophy – Athens, Greece
  • An Epicurean Seminar Agenda From Last Year’s First PanHellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy
  • More From The Epicurean “Homeland” – Symposium In Athens Is Next Month
  • Hail to the Friends of Epicurus in Greece!
  • The Ideal Epicurean Woman? Exhibit 1: Plotina, Wife of the Emperor Trajan
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of December!
  • More Thoughts on Presenting The Basics of Epicureanism
  • Love, Marriage, and the Epicurean in the Modern World
  • Cicero’s “Defense of Epicurus” – And An Invitation To Speak for Epicurus Today
  • Reflections on Epicurean Ethics
  • I Tell You Now — You, All Of You, Were Free From Your First Breath
  • A New Ebook – An Introduction to the Nature of Things
  • An Epicurean Test of Whether a Desire is Contrary to Nature
  • The True Life According To Nature
  • The Doctrines of Epicurus – Annotated
  • Truth and Misconception Regarding Epicurus and Epicureanism
  • An Ebook Collection Of The Basic Texts – “A Life Worthy Of The Gods”
  • New Ebook – The Tripod of Truth: An Introduction To The Book That Fell From The Heavens
  • Revision of the Jackson Barwis Ebook — On Three Legs We Stand
  • The Same Span of Time – The Major Works of Thomas Cooper, M.D.
  • First Edition of New Ebook: In Search of the Missing Third Leg: The Testimony of Jackson Barwis
  • R.I.P. BlackJack – 02/03/11 (With Update for Prince William – 01/27/13)
  • “I love you too well to leave you to the company of a life-long dream.”
  • A New Year’s Resolution: Following Up On A Comment Of Thomas Jefferson
  • A word on the status of the Lucian ebook.
  • An Ebook Devoted to the Epicurean Passages of Lucian
  • Philosophy for the Millions – An Introduction to Epicurus by Norman W. DeWitt
  • An Ebook Update
  • A Guidebook for the Wilderness: Stefan Streitferdt’s “From Pain To Pleasure – The Proven Pathway to Happiness”
  • The Principal Doctrines on Your Mobile Phone
  • In Memory of Volcano Day, August 24th, in the year 832 From the Founding of Rome
  • The NewEpicurean Library
  • A day late, but not forgotten … Peace and Safety for Your 20th of August!
  • To the Hearts In Darkness: A Brief Introduction to Epicurus
  • Not by Chance, Not by Fortune, Not by Fate, Not by Accident, and Not by the Gods was the World Made, But by Natural Law
  • No Fate But What We Make
  • On The Critical Distinction Between “Events” And “Accidents”
  • Updates: Excerpts from De Rerum Natura, and an Annotated version of the Principal Doctrines
  • For New Students of Epicurus
  • Caveat Emptor: Pick Your Texts and Commentaries Carefully!
  • Common Fallacies About Epicurus (#2): Epicurus maintained that Pleasure is the “Greatest Good”
  • Common Fallacies About Epicurus (#1): Epicurus maintained that all sensations are “true.”
  • Never Underestimate Thomas Jefferson
  • A Reading List For New Epicureans
• Category: Jackson Barwis
• Category: John Mason Good
• Category: Justice
  • How Would Epicurus Answer Nietzsche?
  • Master and Student: Epicurus and Jefferson on the Changing Aspects of Justice
• Category: Letter to Herodotus
• Category: Letter to Pythocles
• Category: Liantinis
  • A Link From Ancient to Modern Greece – “Gemma”
• Category: Limits
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November – Polystratus On The Importance of Limits: The Possible and The Impossible
• Category: Logic
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April – A Few Observations on Epicurean Logic by Phillip de Lacy
• Category: Lorenzo Valla
• Category: Lucian
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January – Confidence in the Face of Deception
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October!
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September!
  • What Business Have We To Be The Only Sane Men In A Crowd of Madmen?
• Category: Lucretius
  • A Few Thoughts On Reading Lucretius
  • In Memory of the Great Classical Translator of Lucretius: Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro
  • An Uplifting Passage To Start The Week
  • On The “Fourth Nature” – The “Unnamed Element” of the Mind
  • A Great Clip of Stephen Greenblatt Explaining the Significance of Lucretius
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September! – A listening suggestion.
  • Major New Book on Lucretius About to Be Released!
  • Epicureanism and Sympathy for Animals
  • Lucretius On The Walls of Pompeii
  • An Exercise in Summarizing “The Nature of Things” – Book I
• Category: Marcus Aurelius
• Category: Materialism
• Category: Mathematics
  • The Epicurean Critique of Mathematics
• Category: Meetings
  • Epicurean Meetings And Conventions
• Category: Memorable Concepts
  • Famous Epicurean Epigrams
• Category: Metrodorus
  • Variations On A Majestic Theme – Vatican Saying 47
• Category: Mortality and Death
  • Taking Control of The End
  • An Intersection of Epicurean History With The Modern World: Happy Hanukkah to the Sadducees!
  • Once Having Scaled The Alpine Peak, Would We Wish To Remain On The Top?
• Category: Munro (H A J)
• Category: Natural Law
• Category: Nature of the Gods
• Category: Nature of the Soul
• Category: News Updates
  • Check Out A New Website: DoctrinesOfEpicurus.com, by Nikos the Epicurean
• Category: Nietzsche
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February: “What Destroys A Man More Quickly Than To Work, Think, and Feel … Without Any Deep Personal Desire…?”
  • More Analysis In Support of Epicurus’ Insight: The Error Of Attempting to Reason By Ideal Concepts
  • “What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure—as a mere automaton of duty?”
  • Thoughts on Epicurus, Politics, “The Crowd,” and Nietzsche’s “The New Idol”
  • A Few Words From The Man Who Said: “Epicurus had triumphed, and every respectable intellect in Rome was Epicurean.”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November! – On Doctrine 39, and “Passing By”
• Category: Norman W. DeWitt
  • A Time For All Things Under Heaven – Epicureanism And Incidental Participation In Public Life: The Cincinnatus Model
  • “Vain is the word of that philosopher by which no malady of mankind is healed.”
  • Behold the Face of a Gleeful Epicurean: Norman Wentworth DeWitt
• Category: Palearius
  • Aonius Palearius: Oration to the Citizens of Lucca
• Category: Philodemus
• Category: Physics
  • A Recap of Principles of Epicurean Physics
  • “Will We Be The First Martians?”
• Category: Pleasure
  • Thoughts On Principal Doctrine Three And The “Limit of Pleaure”
• Category: Pompeii
  • The Building Which Housed The Epicurean Library In Herculaneum
• Category: Popular Culture
  • Defending Epicurus In 1858: “One Epicurus can do more to advance human happiness than a thousand Zenos.”
  • “I was afraid before; I’m Not Afraid Anymore… Do You Know What That’s Worth?” Was that Lucretius, or ….. Belinda Carlisle?
  • A Song By A Fan of Epicurus – “Letter to Menoeceus”
  • Revised Edits: A Hymn That Might Have Been, If Joseph Smith had read Lucretius instead of ……whatever!
  • A Case Study in Failing to Appreciate the Scope of Epicurus’ Wisdom: Ayn Rand and the Objectivists
  • Freedom Isn’t Free – Agora, the movie (2010)
  • Let’s Make A List: Two Popular Songs That Illustrate Epicurean Themes
• Category: Research
  • Research Projects: 2 – The Meaning of the “Tetrapharmakos”
• Category: Romantic Love
• Category: Seneca
  • Hail To The Homeland: “What madness it is to learn superfluous things!”
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of March!
• Category: Skepticism (Against)
• Category: Stoicism (Against)
  • Top Problematic Attitude and “Life Premise” Issues Made Worse By Stoicism and Cured by Epicurean Philosophy
• Category: Strength
• Category: Texts on Epicurus
  • First Edition of “The Evidence-Based Life: Epicurus and the Essential Nature of Things” released today, 1/1/10
• Category: Thomas Cooper MD
  • An Enlightened Exchange Between Friends On The Absurdity of the Doctrine of Necessity
• Category: Thomas Jefferson
  • Jefferson: To You Modern Deep Thinkers Who Use My Name Without Knowing My Philosophy:
  • “That the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical …. hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.”
  • On The Organization Of Thomas Jefferson’s Summary of the Philosophy of Epicurus
  • For Your Twentieth of August: A Thought From the Marquis De Condorcet
• Category: Twentieth Memorials
  • Happy Twentieth of July! – “Dreading Nothing So Much As To Seem To Doubt Of Anything!” 🙂
  • Happy Twentieth of April – Questions To Ask Oneself About Epicurean Philosophy
  • Happy Twentieth of November! Giving Thanks Where It Is Truly Due
  • Happy Twentieth of October!
  • Happy Twentieth of September: “Everything Is Done For the Sake of Pleasure”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of March – On Limits And Perfect Quantities
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May – “Wisdom Has Nothing In Common With Fortune”
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of March! On The Importance of Reading the Original Texts
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February!
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January!
  • Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of December!!! – How Do You Choose Your Food?
  • Twentieth Of July Special Edition – “And By His Victory We Reach The Stars!”
  • Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of July!
  • Happy Twentieth of June!
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May!
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April!
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of March!
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of November!
  • Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October! – “Just as there is no profit in medicine unless it expels the diseases of the body, so there is none in philosophy either unless it expels the malady of the soul.”
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of May!
  • Peace and Safety for your Twentieth of February!
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of January!
  • Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of December!
  • Peace and Safety for Your 20th of November!
  • Peace and Safety for your 20th of October!
  • Peace and Safety for Your 20th of September!!
• Category: Uncategorized
  • Happy Twentieth of June! — Vatican Saying 38 – Pleasure strengthens us; Pain Destroys Us
  • Three General Points About the Canon of Truth
  • Happy Twentieth of May: Don’t Surrender, Instead Retreat – Regroup – Advance!
  • Overview of Epicurean Philosophy – A New Outline
  • Torquatus’ Defense Of Epicurean Ethics – The Fighting Epicurean
  • Back Up And Running On New Host!
  • Happy Twentieth of January – Join Us Today to Commemorate the Twentieth at Discordapp.com!
  • Epicurean Discussion at DiscordApp.com
  • Before You Reach A Verdict, Read: Norman DeWitt’s “Epicurus And His Philosophy”
  • Happy Twentieth of December! A Good Time To Raise A Toast To Antiochius IV
  • A Single Page PDF Handout of the Fundamental Epicurean Doctrines
  • Happy Twentieth – “How Long Should the Parthenon Stand?”
  • A Dialog On “Epicurean Ways of Thinking” and “ReHellenization In Light of Epicurean Philosophy”
  • Epicurean Influence On Humanistic Values in Medicine – A Slide Presentation by Christos Yapijakis
  • “We believed … that man was a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice…”
  • Another Excellent Greenblatt Presentation on Lucretius
  • The Wise Man Laughs At The idea of “Fate”
  • Why We All Need Philosophy
• Category: Unsung Heroes
• Category: Website Purpose
  • So do all things as if Epicurus were watching!
• Category: Women (Epicurean)