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Cassius' Blog

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This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/54/]. This article is viewable also on Substack.…

Cassius

March 24, 2026 at 1:10 PM

Cassius' Blog

How Is The Wise Epicurean Always Happy?

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/53/]. There are as many opinions about happiness as there are people. Everyone…

Cassius

December 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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

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

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

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

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…

Cassius

May 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM

Cassius' Blog

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

This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here…

Cassius

October 22, 2023 at 8:20 PM

Cassius' Blog

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This entry has been superseded.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…

Cassius

March 23, 2023 at 5:28 PM

Cassius' Blog

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,…

Cassius

March 23, 2023 at 5:24 PM

Cassius' Blog

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

Cassius' Blog

On Pleasure vs. Tranquility - A Dialogue With Southampton

JC: 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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