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This entry has been superseded. Please read the current version here [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/article/51/]. “It is observed too that in his treatise On the Ethical End he writes in…

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…

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…

This entry has been superseded.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This entry has been superseded.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/11-on-pain-pleasure-and-happiness/]. Not "absence of pain" as a full statement…

Read about the Core Aspects of the Epicurean Philosophy [URL:https://www.epicureanfriends.com/wcf/terms-standards-rules/] emphasized here at EpicureanFriends by clicking the link: Core Aspects of…

[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…

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…

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…

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…