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Cassius
August 25, 2026 at 9:10 PM Replied to the thread Updates To Home Page - New "Featured Articles" and "Featured Podcasts" Sections.Post[…]
Thank you Patrikios I think that is fixed now. -
Cassius
August 25, 2026 at 8:58 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Patrikios’s post in the thread Updates To Home Page - New "Featured Articles" and "Featured Podcasts" Sections.Cassius
There is a miss-link. Under the Articles list, the entry for Christos Yapijakis: “Epicurean Philosophy, Modern Science, and Life”, links to a different article by Elli.
It would be good to see more articles by Yapijakis and other medical… -
Kalosyni
August 25, 2026 at 8:23 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Patrikios’s post in the thread Updates To Home Page - New "Featured Articles" and "Featured Podcasts" Sections.[…]
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Excellent closing;, or as my Southern Baptist relatives would say, “Great Altar Call”👍 -
Kalosyni
August 25, 2026 at 8:20 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Patrikios’s post in the thread Risk Aversion / Risk Management / Risk Avoidance / Risk Assessment in Epicurean Philosophy.[…]
Cassius
You are right that “risk” and the related “risk assessment”, “risk management”, “risk avoidance” are complex topics that affect many aspects of Epicurean philosophy. In Haris Dimitriadis book, “Epicurus and the Pleasant Life”, he discusses… -
Julia
August 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM Reacted withLike (Article) to the article The 'Academic Questions' Behind Evaluation Of Pleasure and Happiness.“Academic Questions” sounds like exactly what a modern reader expects from ancient philosophy: a dry, technical argument about definitions, conducted by men with nothing better to do, over a question no one outside a cla -
Julia
August 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM Reacted withLike (Article) to the article Aulus Gellius And The Clearest Ancient Testimony That Absence of Pain Means Nothing More Than Pleasure.“The removal of all pain is the limit of the magnitude of pleasures.” – Epicurus, Principal Doctrine 3 Centuries of commentators have treated this and similar statements as an invitation to make something other than plea -
Julia
Like (Article)August 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM The Words You’ve Seen a Thousand Times, and What It Actually Says You have almost certainly seen this sentence before, even if you’ve never read a word of it: “Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit, -
Julia
August 25, 2026 at 6:24 PM Reacted withLike (Article) to the article Against Katastematic Supremacy: Pleasure Is A Unified Good, Not A House Divided Against Itself.The Current Establishment View - Which It Is the Editorial Policy Of EpicureanFriends.com to Reject With only a few notable exceptions, practically every modern account of Epicurean ethics repeats the same claim: Epicuru -
Julia
August 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM Reacted withLike (Article) to the article The Full Cup Model: Pleasure, Purity, and the Limit That Answers Plato.“I know not how to conceive the good, apart from the pleasures of taste, of sex, of sound, and the pleasures of beautiful form.” – Epicurus, in Diogenes Laertius, Book X Introduction Epicurus declared pleasure to be the -
Julia
August 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM Reacted withLike (Article) to the article The Letter of Epicurus to His Mother.The Letter of Epicurus to His Mother Diogenes of Oinoanda (fr. 125–126) – Free rendering Mother, concerning everything that troubles you, I want you to form clear and confident thoughts. The images we see in dreams - esp
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