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Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy (Video of Epicurean Doctrines)

The following video is a compilation of paraphrased Epicurean quotations organized as a single presentation covering most of the main points of the philosophy. For discussion of this video please go…

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January 6, 2024 at 7:15 PM

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Nate's "Allegory of the Oasis" Graphic

This entry will cover the graphic Nate originally produced in 2018.

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January 6, 2024 at 7:09 PM

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The "A Few Days In Athens" Book Review

In 2022 EpicureanFriends sponsored a chapter-by-chapter book review of Frances Wright's "A Few Days In Athens.

You can access each week's meeting notes here:

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November 5, 2023 at 4:14 PM

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Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin On Her Book "Living For Pleasure"

In Episodes 156 and 157, the Lucretius Today podcasters interviewed Dr. Emily Austin, author of 2022's "Living For Pleasure." You can access the original podcasts and show discussions in the…

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March 23, 2023 at 5:24 PM

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Ten Key Steps In Epicurean Reasoning

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…

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November 28, 2022 at 8:10 AM

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Epicurus Answers Four of the Great Questions of Human Life

Several conversations lately have led me to want to produce a new article on what I would contend are some of the most important take-aways from the teachings of Epicurus. These are the points with…

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April 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM

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Parsing The Wikipedia Introduction To Epicurus As Of February 6, 2020

Below is the Wikipedia introduction to Epicurus as of 02/06/20. I will highlight in red, and add a footnote to each statement which I contend is in serious need of correction or amplification.

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June 6, 2020 at 9:22 AM

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Caricatures to the Left of Them, Caricatures to the Right of Them, Caricatures In Front of Them, Volleyed and Thundered

As much as Epicurus advised against devoting life to politics, it appears that the politicians cannot return the favor and leave Epicurus alone. On both left and right, partisans of every cause…

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May 4, 2020 at 9:08 AM

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Michele Pinto: "Friendship: A Natural And Necessary Desire"

Inspired by the considerations on the Epicurean friendship of Phillp Mithis in the book "The Ethical Theory of Epicurus - The pleasures of Invulnerability," I want to summarize the thought of

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November 1, 2019 at 3:38 PM

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Political Division In The Promotion of Epicurean Philosophy: A Prescription For Disaster

[Cassius: I write the following article clearly stating that it is my own personal opinion, without representation that it is or should be "the Epicurean position." I do not believe that I or…

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September 27, 2019 at 4:05 PM

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The Full Cup / Fullness of Pleasure Model

“It is observed too that in his treatise On the Ethical End he writes in these terms : “I know not how to conceive the good, apart from the pleasures of taste, of sex, of sound, and the…

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January 20, 2018 at 9:56 AM

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A Comparison Chart: Stoic vs. Epicurean Philosophy

This chart comparing the major features of Stoicism vs Epicurean philosophy is a continuing work in progress! It is currently hosted at a Google Docs page to make editing easier. Feel free to make…

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January 20, 2018 at 10:04 AM

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We And The Stoics Today - Or: “To Those from the Stoa”

WE AND THE STOICS TODAY, or “To Those from the Stoa”

by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos, member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki

27.11.2015

A proposition about Stoicism on an Epicurean website causes…

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April 2, 2019 at 5:54 PM

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"Free Will In Epicurean Philosophy" - by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos

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We often confuse the issue of the possibility of free will exercising with the issue of its existence. When we are unable to exercise it we say with sloppiness that it does not exist.…

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May 17, 2019 at 4:31 PM

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On Pain, Pleasure, and Happiness

Not "absence of pain" as a full statement of the goal of life, but “the Feelings are two, pleasure and pain” and “Pleasure is the beginning and the end of a happy life.”

Brief: The feelings are only…

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July 15, 2019 at 7:31 PM

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Classical Epicurean Philosophy: Not Neo-Epicurean, But Epicurean

Read about the Core Aspects of the Epicurean Philosophy emphasized here at EpicureanFriends by clicking the link: Core Aspects of the Epicurean Philosophy. For a "compare and contrast version of…

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July 26, 2019 at 11:23 AM

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Political Division In The Promotion of Epicurean Philosophy: A Prescription For Disaster

[Cassius: I write the following article clearly stating that it is my own personal opinion, without representation that it is or should be "the Epicurean position." I do not believe that I or…

Cassius

September 27, 2019 at 4:05 PM

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Michele Pinto: "Friendship: A Natural And Necessary Desire"

Inspired by the considerations on the Epicurean friendship of Phillp Mithis in the book "The Ethical Theory of Epicurus - The pleasures of Invulnerability," I want to summarize the thought of

…

Cassius

November 1, 2019 at 3:38 PM

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On the Ill Health of Epicurus vs The Insanity of the Modern World (In The Pandemic Of Coronavirus).

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…

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March 19, 2020 at 2:04 PM

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Caricatures to the Left of Them, Caricatures to the Right of Them, Caricatures In Front of Them, Volleyed and Thundered

As much as Epicurus advised against devoting life to politics, it appears that the politicians cannot return the favor and leave Epicurus alone. On both left and right, partisans of every cause…

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May 4, 2020 at 9:08 AM

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"Challenging Ataraxia" - By Haris Dimitriadis

Haris Dimitriadis is author of “The Pleasant Life – The Philosophy of Epicurus.” Born in Greece, Haris studied Mathematics at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki as well as Economics at the…

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May 15, 2020 at 1:54 PM

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Epicurus Answers Four of the Great Questions of Human Life

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April 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM

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Ten Key Steps In Epicurean Reasoning

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November 28, 2022 at 8:10 AM

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Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Emily Austin On Her Book "Living For Pleasure"

In Episodes 156 and 157, the Lucretius Today podcasters interviewed Dr. Emily Austin, author of 2022's "Living For Pleasure." You can access the original podcasts and show discussions in the…

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March 23, 2023 at 5:24 PM

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Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. David Glidden on Epicurean Prolepsis

In Episode 166 the Lucretius Today podcasters interviewed Dr. David Glidden, professor emeritus from the University of California - Riverside, about his articles "Epicurean Prolepsis" and "Epicurean…

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March 23, 2023 at 5:28 PM

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Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Marcelo Boeri - co-author of "Theory and Practice of Epicurean Political Philosophy: Security, Justice, and Tranquility"

In Episode 197 of the Lucretius Today Podcast, on October 19, 2023, we were privileged to speak with Dr. Marcelo Boeri, co-author with Javier Aoiz of Theory and Practice In Epicurean Political…

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October 22, 2023 at 8:20 PM

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The "A Few Days In Athens" Book Review

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November 5, 2023 at 4:14 PM

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Nate's "Allegory of the Oasis" Graphic

This entry will cover the graphic Nate originally produced in 2018.

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January 6, 2024 at 7:09 PM

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Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy (Video of Epicurean Doctrines)

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Inspired by the considerations on the Epicurean friendship of Phillp Mithis in the book "The Ethical Theory of Epicurus - The pleasures of Invulnerability," I want to summarize the thought of

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