Blog Articles in Category “Epicurean Canonics”

Here is a listing of ten key steps of Epicurean reasoning. There is nothing magic about this grouping but it's an effort to combine a manageable set of key points with important citations supporting…

From Diogenes Laertius, Book 10 (The Biography of Epicurus), we read something that may lead us again to revisit the matter of the apparent chronic ill health of Epicurus, and how the great…

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/11-on-pain-pleasure-and-happiness/]. Not "absence of pain" as a full statement…

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/4-free-will-in-epicurean-philosophy-by-dimitris-liarmakopoulos/]. PREFACE 1.…

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/60/]. Epicurus had important things to say about happiness, pleasure, fear, and…

E.S. XXXVI (36) The life of Epicurus, when compared with that of other philosophers, seems almost legendary thanks to the calmness and self-sufficiency that distinguished him. ----- In Mytilene,…

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…

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…

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/8-interview-with-dr-david-glidden-epicurean-prolepsis/]. In Episode 166 the…

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/11-on-pain-pleasure-and-happiness/]. This is a draft article, and end notes…