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The Completeness Argument, Cicero's Knowledge Of It, And The Epicurean Response

The Completeness Argument

One of the oldest objections to placing the highest good in anything other than virtue runs like this: the good must be complete — whole, finished, lacking nothing — and…

Cassius

August 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM

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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…

Cassius

August 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM

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Too Long Unpraised And Unappreciated - Aulus Gellius And The Clearest Ancient Testimony That Absence of Pain Means Nothing More Than Pleasure

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Centuries of commentators have treated this and similar statements as an invitation to make something other than pleasure the real goal of Epicurean philosophy -- a neutral resting state, a merely…

Cassius

July 20, 2026 at 9:47 AM

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Living For The Pleasures Of The Moment Isn't Epicurean — It's Lunacy: Why the World's Most Famous "Hedonist" Would Have Despised What We Call Hedonism

The Passage 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…

Cassius

July 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM

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Against Katastematic Supremacy - Pleasure Is A Unified Good, Not A House Divided Against Itself - INCLUDES FORUM EDITORIAL POLICY

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…

Cassius

July 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM

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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…

Elli

June 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM

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Living For Pleasure, Or Dying For Relief From Pain?

"For this reason we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed life." — Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

Is The "Emphasis" In Epicurean Philosophy On Relief From Pain?

In a separate article I have…

Cassius

June 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM

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Why It Is Incorrect to Say Epicurean Philosophy Is Primarily About 'Absence of Pain'

The Claim and Why It Matters

The claim that Epicurean philosophy is “primarily about the absence of pain” — that the Epicurean goal is a passive, featureless neutral state free from disturbance…

Cassius

May 20, 2026 at 10:54 AM

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In An AI World, The Epicurean View of Knowledge Is More Important Than Ever

Epicurus had important things to say about happiness, pleasure, fear, and anxiety. But before the modern world reduced him to the status of a street-corner therapist, his most important contributions…

Cassius

May 15, 2026 at 7:40 AM

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Let All Who Would Free Themselves From the False Claims Of The Geometers Enter Here

Epicurus Was Right: Geometry Is a Powerful Tool But Not the Final Truth About Physical Reality

Introduction: Two Inscriptions Over Two Doors

Over the entrance to Plato’s Academy in Athens, tradition…

Cassius

April 30, 2026 at 10:19 AM

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Epicurean Responses To The Intelligent Design Argument

Introduction: A Very Old Argument

The intelligent design argument is one of the oldest and most persistent claims in the history of human thought. In its simplest form it says: the world we observe is…

Cassius

April 28, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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The Continuing Vitality Of Epicurean Physics

Introduction: A Story About the Sun That Is Really About Everything

In a recent scholarly essay, T.H.M. Gellar-Goad takes up one of the most ridiculed positions in the history of ancient philosophy:…

Cassius

April 27, 2026 at 9:52 AM

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In Troubled Times, Why Young People Should Turn To Epicurus Rather Than To The Pope

A friendly but direct word to young people searching for solid ground and thinking they might find it in the old but newly trendy Church

This article is also available on Substack.

Something is…

Cassius

April 15, 2026 at 11:34 AM

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Reality Does Not Require Being Always The Same

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One of the deepest and most consequential divisions in the history of philosophy runs not between optimism and pessimism, or between free will and determinism,…

Cassius

March 31, 2026 at 10:24 AM

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Not A Bunker But A Camp: A Response To "The Garden or the Forum" - An Epicurean response to Massimo Pigliucci's March 3, 2026. article on Epicurus, the Stoics, and political engagement

This article is viewable also on Substack.

Massimo Pigliucci’s essay “The Garden Or The Forum: Epicurus, The Stoics, And The Duty To Engage” represents precisely the kind of Stoic-inflected reading of…

Cassius

March 24, 2026 at 1:10 PM

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How Is The Wise Epicurean Always Happy?

There are as many opinions about happiness as there are people. Everyone has their own idea of what happiness is or should be. Some say that we should look to religion for happiness. Others say that

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Cassius

December 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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The Epic of Epicurus - Ithaca and the Garden: Dialectic and the Canon

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.

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In Mytilene, where…

Elli

December 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM

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“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…

Elli

November 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM

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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…

Elli

November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM

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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…

Elli

October 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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PRINCIPAL DOCTRINE XIV – ANALYSIS & CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION

This work was authored by George Kaplanis, a retired notary and founding member of the Group for the Analysis and Experiential Application of Epicurean Philosophy Today (http://www.epicuros21.gr)

The…

Elli

June 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM

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Fanaticism and the Danger of Dogmatism in Political and Religious Thought: An Epicurean Reading

PD 40: “As many as possess the power to procure complete immunity from their neighbours, these also live most pleasantly with one another, since they have the most certain pledge of security, and…

Elli

June 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM

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The Epicurean Paradigm Shift - Things To Know When Reading Epicurus For The First Time

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1. Introduction: The Epicurean Paradigm Shift

In Book Two of his work On The Ends of Good And Evil, the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero wrote in regard to Epicurus' view…

Cassius

May 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM

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The Uncertainty of Science and the Certainty of Faith

The Uncertainty of Science and the Certainty of Faith

By Dimitris Altas, cardiologist and member of the Analysis and Experiential Application Team of Epicurean Philosophy Today [(…

Elli

May 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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"Epicurean Philosophy and the Deception of Modern Globalist Ideologues"

"Epicurean Philosophy and the Deception of Modern Globalist Ideologues", by Elli Pensa

When you write a book and reference Epicurean philosophy as if it were nothing more than…“stones, bricks,…

Elli

May 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM

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A Gate To Be Burst: "Absence of Pain"

It is interesting to think about what Lucretius had in mind in Book One of “On The Nature of Things” when he spoke about Epicurus "yearning to be the first to burst through the close-set bolts upon…

Cassius

February 11, 2024 at 6:20 AM

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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…

Cassius

January 6, 2024 at 7:15 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:

A Few Days In Athens - Chapter By Chapter…

Cassius

November 5, 2023 at 4:14 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…

Cassius

October 22, 2023 at 8:20 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…

Cassius

March 23, 2023 at 5:28 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…

Cassius

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…

Cassius

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…

Cassius

April 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM

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A New Personal Philosophy: Hedonic Pragmatics

Friends, recent discussions have prompted me to finally get around to clarifying my own take on Epicurean Philosophy, which I have named "Hedonic Pragmatics"-- a new philosophy that is still closely…

Elayne

November 22, 2020 at 10:52 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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Cassius

June 6, 2020 at 9:22 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…

Cassius

May 15, 2020 at 1:54 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…

Cassius

May 4, 2020 at 9:08 AM

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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…

Elli

March 19, 2020 at 2:04 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

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Cassius

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…

Cassius

September 27, 2019 at 4:05 PM

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On Pleasure vs. Tranquility - A Dialogue With Southampton

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Hi Cassius. I'm sorry to badger you about this again, but I'm still trying to get my head around the pleasure principle. From my reading, all scholars agree that Epicurus divides pleasure into…

Cassius

September 26, 2019 at 4:06 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…

Cassius

July 26, 2019 at 11:23 AM

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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…

Elayne

July 15, 2019 at 7:31 PM

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On Pain, Pleasure, and Happiness (Original Version, Superceded by Version 2)

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

Elayne

July 12, 2019 at 6:41 PM

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Epicurean Philosophy or Epicureanism?

In a recent conversation to the Garden of Thessaloniki, a question was raised whether the Epicureans could participate as a party to the political scene of the…

Elli

June 16, 2019 at 8:41 AM

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"The Canon of Epicurus In Everyday Life"

The purpose of this proposition is a brief introduction to the Canon of Epicurus that will help us to use it in our everyday life. There are, of course,…

Elli

June 16, 2019 at 8:37 AM

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“Online Communication With Cassius”

For the 6^th Panhellenic Symposium of Epicurean Philosophy that was held by the Epicurean Gardens of Athens and Thessaloniki, February 2018

1. (OPENING - TWO…

Elli

May 31, 2019 at 3:34 PM

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"Free Will In Epicurean Philosophy" - by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos

PREFACE 1.

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.…

Elli

May 17, 2019 at 4:31 PM

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Positive Mental Health And Well-Being - Epicurus's Use Of The Greek Word "EUDAEMONIA"

Hi to all the epicurean friends ,

To a Greek website called as "psychology now. gr" I found an interesting…

Elli

April 16, 2019 at 11:33 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…

Elli

April 2, 2019 at 5:54 PM

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Genetics and Bioethics - A Philosophical Approach - By Christois Yapijakis

Selection_604.png Christos Yapijakis recently presented a seminar on Genetics and Bioethics about 10 days ago at the…

Cassius

March 17, 2019 at 6:57 PM

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Christos Yapijakis: "Mistakes of Cognitive Perception and Epicurean Prudence"

From Christos Yapijakis: I have translated for you and our international friends my Greek presentation slides at the…

Cassius

February 16, 2019 at 11:38 AM

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Christos Yapijakis: "Epicurean Philosophy, Modern Science, and Life" - A Presentation With Question Answer Session.

Epicurean Philosophy, Modern Science, and Life

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Source for the following article: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

A live conversation between Christos Yapijakis, geneticist…

Cassius

November 24, 2018 at 4:51 PM

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"Epicurean influences on Enlightenment", by Dimitris Altas, Cardiologist, member of the team epicuros21

Epicurean Influences On The Enlightenment

by Dimitris Altas, Cardiologist, member of the epicurean team epicuros21, Thessaloniki, Hellas.

EPICUREAN INFLUENCES ON ENLIGHTENMENT.jpg In 1453 the…

Elli

November 23, 2018 at 12:57 PM

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"The Epicurean Viewpoint", by George Kaplanis founding member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki

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The Epicurean Viewpoint

by George Kaplanis founding member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki

Now I ask you: what is the “Epicurean Viewpoint”?

- It is the view…

Elli

November 22, 2018 at 5:31 PM

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A Neighbor And His Dog - by Elli Pensa

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A Neighbor And His Dog

I have a story to tell you about a neighbor and his dog, but first I would like to share with you some thoughts on Epicurean Doctrine 40: “As many as possess…

Cassius

November 5, 2018 at 10:45 AM

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A Five Star Presentation of Epicurean Philosophy

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A Five Star Presentation of Epicurean Philosophy

I think it's important that we begin to present Epicurean philosophy through podcasts and other audio-video means, so as a test I…

Cassius

October 29, 2018 at 7:40 PM

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Major Controversies In Understanding Epicurean Philosophy

Selection_999(359).jpg Understanding Epicurus takes considerable effort, but not because the doctrines are difficult - they're not! The problem is that Epicurean philosophy has been heavily…

Cassius

January 27, 2018 at 1:58 PM

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Creating "Blog Articles" Here At EpicuranFriends.com

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Creating "Articles" Here At EpicuranFriends.com

One of the abilities of the EpicureanFriends.com forum software is that it handles the publishing of longer "Articles" that can…

Cassius

January 24, 2018 at 6:28 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…

Cassius

January 20, 2018 at 10:04 AM

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"Objection Your Honor! Attorney Cicero Is Mischaracterizing the Testimony To Mislead The Jury! The Evidence Is Clear: Not Only Is "Ataraxia" Not The Highest Pleasure - Ataraxia Alone Is Not A Pleasure At All!

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"Objection Your Honor! Attorney Cicero Is Mischaracterizing the Testimony!

My title for this article may be melodramatic for effect, but it is essentially the theme…

Cassius

January 20, 2018 at 10:00 AM

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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…

Cassius

January 20, 2018 at 9:56 AM

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Top Problematic Attitude and “Life Premise” Issues Made Worse By Stoicism and Cured by Epicurean Philosophy

Cassius Amicus 01-31-2017

With the assistance of input from the Facebook group, I have been…

Cassius

November 23, 2017 at 4:55 PM

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You Have Been Deceived!

You have been deceived.

If you are hearing these words in the early years of the twenty-first century, then you have already wasted much of your life dealing with nonsense.

If…

Cassius

November 23, 2017 at 4:53 PM

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The Epicurean Critique of Mathematics

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The Epicurean Critique of Mathematics

I just received this link and have not had a chance to read it but the topic seems fascinating ("The Epicurean Critique of Mathematics") and…

Cassius

July 16, 2017 at 11:02 AM

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Epicurean Meetings and Conventions

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Epicurean Meetings and Conventions

A new Wiki Page devoted to assisting those who want to set up local Epicurean meetup groups or meetings has now been set up. It will be…

Cassius

July 12, 2017 at 8:28 AM

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A Link From Ancient to Modern Greece – Liantinis' “Gemma”

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This is a tardy call to attention of a translation of an important Greek work by Dimitris Liantinis,…

Cassius

July 8, 2017 at 8:37 AM

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Another Important Step Toward Correcting the Record On Epicurus and Living A Better Life Today - "Epicurus and the Pleasant Life"

Another Important Step Toward Correcting the Record On Epicurus and Living A Better Life Today - Haris Dimitriadis' Epicurus and the Pleasant Life.

By Cassius Amicuson July 6, 2017

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July 7, 2017 at 7:11 AM

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"When the Gospel of Minimalism Collides With Daily Life"

New York Times: ".... But those who have tried the minimalist way have found that it’s not always as satisfying as design websites and…

Cassius

July 3, 2017 at 11:21 AM

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"On Epicurean Extremes" - at the Menoeceus Blog

"On Epicurean Extremes" Epicurean Philosophy is a subtle one. Its meant to be a guide to life, and since human existence is a really complex issue,…

Cassius

July 1, 2017 at 9:07 PM

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Reminder - Index To Major Posts At the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook Group

06/28/17 This is just a reminder that an "index" to major posts at the Epicurean Philosophy Facebook page is available here at the EF Wiki. Due to space and time constraints this list does not…

Cassius

June 28, 2017 at 2:36 PM

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Epicurean Basics

Epicurean Basics (Discussion of the Article At the Epicurus Facebook Page)

Epicurean philosophy is best known for its advocacy of “Pleasure” as the guide to life. Epicurus taught that Nature…

Cassius

June 22, 2017 at 9:19 AM

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Ataraxia And The Issue of Confident Expectation

06/21/17 - The following is excerpted from two posts on the Facebook Group:

I continue to believe that formulations of ataraxia that imply that passivity (all we have to do is suppress pain) is…

Cassius

June 21, 2017 at 1:37 PM

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Changes to the EpicureanFriends Wiki

06/20/17 - In order to provide maximum flexibility and ease of use in documenting core materials, content is being moved from the Epicureandocs.com website over to the EpicureanFriends Wiki.…

Cassius

June 20, 2017 at 4:20 PM

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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of June: Haris Dimitriadis’ “Epicurus And the Pleasant Life”

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06/20/17 Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of June: Haris Dimitriadis’ “Epicurus And the Pleasant Life”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be

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Cassius

June 20, 2017 at 12:01 AM

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Happy Day-Before-The-Twentieth

06/19/17 - Happy Day-Before-The-Twentieth! In this case, it's also the day before the day before Haris Dimitriadis releases his new book "Epicurus and The Pleasant Life - Living By The Philosophy of…

Cassius

June 19, 2017 at 10:00 AM

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EpicureanFriends To Begin Posting News Items on Home Page

06/18/17 - From here on EpicureanFriends.com will devote its front page to news items, including recent important Articles and Posts in the Forum. The material formerly on this page has been moved…

Cassius

June 18, 2017 at 2:11 PM

We plan in the future for this section to include user-submitted articles organized into personal blogs. You can subscribe to these by RSS and keep up with all blog entries from individual users. Until such time as that system is implemented, past blog entries are being moved to the "Articles" section of the forum. If you look here for an entry and cannot find it, please look in the "Articles" section.

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The Completeness Argument, Cicero's Knowledge Of It, And The Epicurean Response

The Completeness Argument

One of the oldest objections to placing the highest good in anything other than virtue runs like this: the good must be complete — whole, finished, lacking nothing — and…

Cassius

August 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM

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The 'Academic Questions' Behind Evaluation Of Pleasure And Happiness

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August 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM

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Too Long Unpraised And Unappreciated - Aulus Gellius And The Clearest Ancient Testimony That Absence of Pain Means Nothing More Than Pleasure

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July 20, 2026 at 9:47 AM

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Living For The Pleasures Of The Moment Isn't Epicurean — It's Lunacy: Why the World's Most Famous "Hedonist" Would Have Despised What We Call Hedonism

The Passage 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…

Cassius

July 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM

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Against Katastematic Supremacy - Pleasure Is A Unified Good, Not A House Divided Against Itself - INCLUDES FORUM EDITORIAL POLICY

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…

Cassius

July 16, 2026 at 2:06 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…

Cassius

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…

Cassius

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…

Elli

April 2, 2019 at 5:54 PM

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"Free Will In Epicurean Philosophy" - by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos

PREFACE 1.

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.…

Elli

May 17, 2019 at 4:31 PM

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Elayne

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…

Cassius

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

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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…

Elli

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…

Cassius

May 4, 2020 at 9:08 AM

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"Challenging Ataraxia" - By Haris Dimitriadis

Cassius

May 15, 2020 at 1:54 PM

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Epicurus Answers Four of the Great Questions of Human Life

Cassius

April 20, 2021 at 10:58 AM

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Ten Key Steps In Epicurean Reasoning

Cassius

November 28, 2022 at 8:10 AM

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The "A Few Days In Athens" Book Review

Cassius

November 5, 2023 at 4:14 PM

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Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy (Video of Epicurean Doctrines)

Cassius

January 6, 2024 at 7:15 PM

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"Epicurean Philosophy and the Deception of Modern Globalist Ideologues"

Elli

May 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM

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The Uncertainty of Science and the Certainty of Faith

The Uncertainty of Science and the Certainty of Faith

By Dimitris Altas, cardiologist and member of the Analysis and Experiential Application Team of Epicurean Philosophy Today [(…

Elli

May 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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PRINCIPAL DOCTRINE XIV – ANALYSIS & CONTEMPORARY APPLICATION

Elli

June 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM

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Living For Pleasure, Or Dying For Relief From Pain?

"For this reason we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed life." — Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

Is The "Emphasis" In Epicurean Philosophy On Relief From Pain?

In a separate article I have…

Cassius

June 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM

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