Many people know a little about Epicurus, but not many know very much. In a time of great turmoil in Western civilization, there are four…
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 much as Epicurus advised against devoting life to politics, it appears that the politicians cannot return the favor and leave Epicurus alone. On both…
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…
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…
WE AND THE STOICS TODAY, or “To Those from the Stoa” by Dimitris Liarmakopoulos, member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki A proposition about Stoicism…
by Dimitris Altas, Cardiologist, member of Epicurean Philosophy Friends of Thessaloniki. In 1453 the Ottomans conquered Constantinople by abolishing the Eastern Roman Empire, a fact…
By George Kaplanis founding member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki (translated by Elli Pensa) Now I ask you: what is the “Epicurean Viewpoint”? –…
View the document in full here at Google Docs, or, download as a PDF by clicking below: Epicurean Philosophy v. Stoicism – A Comparison Chart…
“It is observed too that in his treatise “On the Ethical End” he writes in these terms : “I know not how to conceive the…
In January of 1947, Norman W. DeWitt, professor emeritus of Latin at Victoria College in Toronto, Canada, published the first in a series of scholarly…