Older Essays

Epicurus wrote 300 scrolls that are lost to us. The writings of many other Epicureans are also forever gone. We can’t change that. What we CAN do is write 300 times 300 new scrolls and revitalize our philosophy with new insights, with new discourse that is relevant to our age and to our lives. These are the older Eikas essays:

July 2022 – Epicurean Gratitude Prayer

June 2022 – On the Nature of Rights

April 2022 – On Philosophy as an Antidote to Disinformation

March 2022 – Moral Clarity in the Midst of Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine

February 2022 – Some Thoughts on the High Holidays

January 2022 – Philosophy as Self-Care

December 2021 – The Method of Multiple Explanations

November 2021 – On Language, Creativity, and Power

October 2021 – Prometheus Unbound

September 2021 – On “Love Your Neighbor”

August 2021 – Venus Over Mars

June 2021 – Studying the Canon

April 2021 – On Conversation

March 2021 – Some Thoughts on the Soul

February 2021 – On the Occasion of the Birth of the Hegemon

January 2021 – Parables of the Hunter and Isle of the Blessed

December 2020 – On Sentience

November 2020 – On Methods of Exegesis

October – Cosmos 3.3

September – On the misfortune of the wise and the prosperity of the fool

August – On Polyvalent Logic

July – “The Covenant of the Sacred Festival Table”

June – On Why Black Lives Do Indeed Matter

April 2020 – The Ethics of a Quarantine

March 2020 – Did Epicurus Practice Intermittent Fasting?

February 2020 – Armed for Happiness

January 2020 – Back to the Basics II

Deccember 2019 – On Autarchy

November 2019 – Philodemus On Arrogance

October 2019 – In Defense of Eudaimonia

September 2019 – On Anticipations

August 2019 – On the Importance of Healthy Emotions

July 2019 – In Memory of the Men

June 2019 – On the Mind-Body Split / Newsletter

May 2019 – PD 11-13 versus the Qur’an / Newsletter

April 2019 – The Black Hole

March 2019 – Anticipating Fortune

February 2019 – On Epicurean Economics

January 2019 – The Year of the Pig

December 2018 – Happy Humanlight!

November 2018 – Traveling with Epicurus

October 2018 – Lila: Reclaiming Religion as Pleasure

September 2018 – Antiquity Has Never Felt So Alive!

August 2018 – What’s Wrong with Pleasure?

July 2018 – O Fortuna! 

June 2018 – Lucian’s Aerial Expedition

May 2018 – Back to the Basics: the Ethics

April 2018 – The Pleasure of Knowledge

March 2018 – Some Essays and Updates

January 2018 – On Lucretius and Kingship

December 2017 – The Epicureans and the Original Jedi

November 2017 – The Uncuttables

October 2017 – Imagine No Religion!

September 2017 – Epicureans in the Lotus 

July 2017 – Pale Blue Dot

June 2017 – The Havamal on Isolation

May 2017 – The Pauline War on “Peace and Safety”

April 2017 – In Defense of Pleasure

March 2017 – Lucretius on Iron and War

February 2017 – On Nature’s Alphabet

January 2017 – Each One Teach One

December 2016 – Epicurus on Gratitude

November 2016 – Shall We Banish the Ego?

October 2016 – Goal of True Spiritual Practice is Pleasure

September 2016 – On Passing By

August 2016 – Woodland Aborigines Invent Music and Dance

July 2016 – This May Have Happened in the Great All

June 2016 – Neural Pathways in Lucretius’ DRN

May 2016 – Better Be A Subject and at Peace

April 2016 – The Well-Walled Fortress of the Wise

March 2016 – The Punctured Jar Parable

This collection of essays (formerly called SoFE’s Journal) came together during the earlier years of SoFE with the kind assistance of Sasha Euler and has been created as a compilation of contemporary Epicurean conversations and discussions from all walks of life: thinkers, pupils, scholars, and everyday bloggers. We are preserving it for the benefit of students.

Epicurean philosophy and lifestyle

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 1 – 2013

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 2 – 2013

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 6 – from 2014 (ongoing)

Developments of Epicurean thought

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 3 – 2013/14

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 7 – 2014

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 8 – 2014

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 9 – 2015

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 10 – 2015

The Philodemus Series

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 11 – 2017

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 12 – 2017/18

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 13 – 2018-19

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 14 – 2019-20

Related traditions

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 4 – from 2013

On Autarchy

Society of Friends of Epicurus (SoFE) Journal Volume 5 – from 2013

Happy 20th!, the newsletter of the Society of Friends of Epicurus, was discontinued.

 

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