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Sextus Empiricus - Introduction From An Epicurean Perspective

Sextus Empiricus and Epicurus both spoke of ataraxia, and many readers conclude that the two wanted the same thing. Sextus's own words show how far apart they are: he names Epicurus a Dogmatist, reaches his "quietude" by giving up on truth, and attacks the pleasure Epicurus made the goal of life. A guide to Sextus's surviving works and the passages that matter to Epicureans.
Cassius
October 26, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Dialectical Logic And Radical Skepticism Do Not Determine Truth

Neither the Stoic and Peripatetic reliance on formal logic, nor the Academic Skeptic's distrust of the senses, keeps faith with the only genuine standard of truth: sensation, anticipation, and feeling.
Cassius
August 25, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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All Sensations Are True

Our senses report honestly and without opinion; truth and error arise only in the mind's interpretation, never in the faculties Nature gave us to perceive the world.
Cassius
August 25, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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The Completeness Argument, Cicero's Knowledge Of It, And The Epicurean Response

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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 cannot be a process, a becoming, or anything that admits of growth or degree. A thing that is still developing toward some end is not yet that end; it is only on the way to it. Plato gives this argument its classic statement, distinguishing genesis (becoming, a process aimed at…
Cassius
August 7, 2026 at 10:17 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 What is knowledge, and what is faith? One m
Elli
May 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM