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Elli's Blog - Articles By Elli Pensa And Other Friends of Epicurus in Greece

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. ----- In Mytilene,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:31 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…
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Cassius' Blog

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

https://youtu.be/ZYUt4TFBRMU 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…
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A Gate To Be Burst: "Absence of Pain"

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/10-a-gate-to-be-burst-absence-of-pain/]. It is interesting to think about what…
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Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. Marcelo Boeri - co-author of "Theory and Practice of Epicurean Political Philosophy: Security, Justice, and Tranquility"

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Lucretius Today Interviews Dr. David Glidden on Epicurean Prolepsis

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

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/5-interview-with-dr-emily-austin-living-for-pleasure/]. In Episodes 156 and 157,…
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