Ideas That Matter | A Conversation With Hiram Crespo About Epicureanism, Pleasures, and Community YouTube video by Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

Ideas That Matter | A Conversation With Hiram Crespo About Epicureanism, Pleasures, and Community
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Against the Use of Empty Words: Synopsis and Commentary Book 28 of the 37 books On Nature (Peri Physeos) by Epicurus is informally titled “Against the Use of Empty Words”.

Against the Use of Empty Words: Synopsis and Commentary

ΠΡΟΣ EΜΠEΔΟΚΛEΑ AGAINST EMPEDOKLḖS1 BY HÉRMARKHOS OF MYTILḖNĒ2 I 7 But the [ones] recounting [all of this] affirm [in the context] of the [aforementioned] Epíkouros, exactly as [was demonstrated by his] long genea…

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Erald Kolasi (@technodynamics) Epicurus was the greatest philosopher of all time. He single-handedly foreshadowed virtually all of modern science. He described the basics of Darwinian natural selection over 2,000 years before Dar...

Erald Kolasi argues why "Epicurus was the greatest philosopher of all time."

Swinish Herds and Pastafarians Comedy as an Ideological Weapon

Swinish Herds and Pastafarians: Comedy as an Ideological Weapon
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Did Tarshish Go Atheist? Digging Up the Pre-History of Atheism

Did Tarshish Go Atheist? Digging Up the Pre-#History of #Atheism
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The far-right Christians pushing Trump's war — to bring on the apocalypse - Salon.com “Apostles” and “prophets” on the Christian fringe think Iran may lead to Armageddon — and they love it

“When we look back at human history, every prior time when an extremist version of any religious faith is inextricably intertwined with that part of the state which makes war, we end up with one thing, and one thing only: oceans of blood.”

NATO is a case study for how the social contract cements mutual trust and depends on it.

"The same conviction ... enables us to see that even in our limited conditions of life nothing enhances our security so much as friendship". - Epicurus' Principal Doctrine 28

Daily Epicurean | Building a Slower Life on Instagram: ""If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another." - Epicu... 6 likes, 1 comments - dailyepicurean on August 7, 2025: ""If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another." - Epic...

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Daily Epicurean | Building a Slower Life on Instagram: "Which one are you? 🍷 As a recovering Stoic, I actually have a deep respect for Stoicism. It's a very dignified philosophy. I'd just rather read... 5 likes, 0 comments - dailyepicurean on July 25, 2025: "Which one are you? 🍷 As a recovering Stoic, I actually have a deep respect for Stoicism. It's a very dignified philosophy. I'd just rather read...

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"Where are we going to renew the garden of Epicurus?" - Nietzsche, Epistle to Peter Gast

Nietzsche and Guyau on the Temporality of Epicurean Pleasure A version of this text will appear in Nietzsche and Epicurus, edited by Vinod Acharya and Ryan J. Johnson, London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming (2020). Following the path opened by Alfred Foiullée 1902, th...

Nietzsche and Guyau on the Temporality of Epicurean Pleasure
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Convergence 2026: An Online Conference for All Spiritual Naturalists

Virtue would not go far if Vanity did not keep her company. - La Rochefoucauld

One must make the present perfect, and not live with an orien-tation to the future, saying: Until such and such a thing still happensto me. - Oenoanda Wall Inscription, Fragment 184

The Garden or the Forum: Epicurus, the Stoics, and the duty to engage What ancient philosophy teaches us about political obligations

The Garden or the Forum: Epicurus, the Stoics, and the duty to engage
What ancient philosophy teaches us about political obligations

The Testament of Ann Lee: the Woman Clothed with the Sun A Commentary and Film Review

The Testament of Ann Lee: the Woman Clothed with the Sun
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“Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.”

Frances Wright

On the Fourth Criterion of the Canon To fully understand this essay, first read the Study Guide for the Epicurean Canon.

On the Fourth Criterion of the Canon
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