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Posted onApril 20, 2021April 20, 2021Uncategorized

Epicurus Answers Four of the Great Questions of Human Life

by Cassius Amicus

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…

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Posted onMay 15, 2020May 16, 2020Uncategorized

Challenging Ataraxia

by Haris Dimitriadis

Haris Dimitriadis is author of “The Pleasant Life – The Philosophy of Epicurus.” Born in Greece, Haris studied Mathematics at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki…

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Posted onMay 4, 2020May 5, 2020Uncategorized

Caricatures to the Left of Them, Caricatures to the Right of Them, Caricatures In Front of Them, Volleyed and Thundered

by Cassius AmicusLeave a comment on Caricatures to the Left of Them, Caricatures to the Right of Them, Caricatures In Front of Them, Volleyed and Thundered

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…

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Posted onMarch 19, 2020May 4, 2020Uncategorized

On The Ill Health of Epicurus And The Insanity Of the Modern World

by Elli PensaLeave a comment on On The Ill Health of Epicurus And The Insanity Of the Modern World

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…

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Posted onJuly 15, 2019May 4, 2020Uncategorized

On Pain, Pleasure, And Happiness

by Elayne CoulterLeave a comment on On Pain, Pleasure, And Happiness

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…

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Posted onApril 2, 2019May 4, 2020Uncategorized

We And The Stoics Today (“To Those From The Stoa”)

by Elli Pensa

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…

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Posted onNovember 23, 2018May 4, 2020Uncategorized

Epicurean Influences On The Enlightenment

by Elli Pensa

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…

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Posted onNovember 22, 2018May 4, 2020Uncategorized

The Epicurean Viewpoint

by Elli Pensa

By George Kaplanis founding member of the Epicurean Garden in Thessaloniki  (translated by Elli Pensa) Now I ask you: what is the “Epicurean Viewpoint”? –…

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Posted onJanuary 20, 2018May 4, 2020Uncategorized

Epicurean Philosophy vs. Stoicism – A Comparison Chart

by Cassius Amicus

View the document in full here at Google Docs, or, download as a PDF by clicking below: Epicurean Philosophy v. Stoicism – A Comparison Chart…

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Posted onJanuary 20, 2018May 5, 2020Uncategorized

The Full Cup / Fullness of Pleasure Model

by Cassius AmicusLeave a comment on The Full Cup / Fullness of Pleasure Model

“It is observed too that in his treatise “On the Ethical End” he writes in these terms : “I know not how to conceive the…

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Posted onJanuary 4, 1947May 4, 2020Uncategorized

Philosophy For the Millions – By Norman DeWitt

by Cassius Amicus

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…

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