Recent Blog Posts By Elli

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    For those that might have missed them, Elli has posted several lengthy articles in recent weeks. I'm making this point and also setting up discussion threads for each because sometimes it appears our existing users who often rely on the red "update" markers, don't see when blog entries are added. Thanks to Elli for these articles!


    “When Science Returns to the Hellenic Worldview: Empathy and Consciousness Redeemed”

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    “When Science Returns to the Hellenic Worldview: Empathy and Consciousness Redeemed”

    “When Science Returns to the Hellenic Worldview: Empathy and Consciousness Redeemed”

    Friedrich Nietzsche, in his work The Antichrist, denounces Paul as the inventor of Christianity and an enemy of Rome’s grandeur. But perhaps Nietzsche himself misunderstood what Paul truly fought against. Rome may have been the aching tooth, but Greece was its root. And Paul - not as a scientific dentist (for he knew nothing of science, of course) - but more like the last illiterate barber in the neighborhood,…
    Elli
    November 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM

    Duty, Evolution, Neuroscience, Attic Tragedy, and Epicurean Philosophy

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    Duty, Evolution, Neuroscience, Attic Tragedy, and Epicurean Philosophy

    Duty, Evolution, Neuroscience, Attic Tragedy, and Epicurean Philosophy.

    An Analysis of a Father’s Death Sentence Against His Own Son - Torquatus and the Roman Recasting of Epicurean Philosophy.

    Titus Manlius Torquatus, as portrayed in Cicero’s De Finibus, appears as a defender of Epicurean philosophy. Although many of his arguments echo core Epicurean principles, his rhetorical strategy and moral framework reveal a distinctly Roman reinterpretation - shaped by the ethos of duty, authority, and…
    Elli
    November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM

    Clinamen Vitae - The swerve toward lived experience, where life is worthy of being lived, by Elli Pensa

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    Clinamen Vitae - The swerve toward lived experience, where life is worthy of being lived, by Elli Pensa

    Clinamen Vitae — The swerve toward lived experience, where life is worthy of being lived

    Between night and day lie twilight and dawn - moments that belong neither to light nor to darkness, yet honor both as complementary shades of our natural, tangible, and shared reality. These moments transcend - or rather, refute- the Aristotelian logic of the excluded middle, which leads to dilemmas and false necessities. Nature does not operate this way; it does not exclude, does not oppose. It discerns,…
    Elli
    October 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM

Finding Things At EpicureanFriends.com

What's the best strategy for finding things on EpicureanFriends.com? Here's a suggested search strategy:

  • First, familiarize yourself with the list of forums. The best way to find threads related to a particular topic is to look in the relevant forum. Over the years most people have tried to start threads according to forum topic, and we regularly move threads from our "general discussion" area over to forums with more descriptive titles.
  • Use the "Search" facility at the top right of every page. Note that the search box asks you what section of the forum you'd like to search. If you don't know, select "Everywhere." Also check the "Search Assistance" page.
  • Use the "Tag" facility, starting with the "Key Tags By Topic" in the right hand navigation pane, or using the "Search By Tag" page, or the "Tag Overview" page which contains a list of all tags alphabetically. We curate the available tags to keep them to a manageable number that is descriptive of frequently-searched topics.