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Cicero vs Lucius Sergius Catilina

We’ve got a tale that has it all—ambition, treachery, high-stakes political drama, and the ultimate clash of ideologies. It’s the story of Lucius Sergius Catilina, known to us as Catiline.  Continue Reading

Posted On : 6th September 2023 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Cicero, the Roman I most admire…

Marcus Tullius Cicero, was a man of exceptional talent, intelligence and integrity, who I like to call Rome’s most learned man. A polymath skilled in a range of areas such Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th January 2023 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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What is philosophy for?

Let’s begin by saying something bold, philosophy is first and foremost about using the rational faculty that all human beings possess to determine personal happiness.  In order to find happiness, Continue Reading

Posted On : 20th February 2022 Published By : Comicus Muo
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The world as metanarrative

Pictured as the featured image of this article is French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924—1998) who famously defined postmodernism in one short sound bite: “simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodernism Continue Reading

Posted On : 27th May 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Doing a Chrysippus

  The Greek Stoic philosopher Chrysippus (279 – c. 206 BC) was a major figure in Stoicism, he was head of that school and was reputed to be a prolific Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th March 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On Old Age by Cicero – fourth objection, It is not far from death.

  We come to the last conclusion of this series, the fourth objection: “We must finally consider the fourth objection to growing old – an objection that seems especially calculated Continue Reading

Posted On : 13th October 2019 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On Old Age by Cicero – Third objection, It deprives us of almost all sensual pleasures.

  Moving on from the last topic, Cato continues on his defence of old age; he gladly proclaims: “We come now to the third objection to growing older – that Continue Reading

Posted On : 21st September 2019 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On Old Age by Cicero – Second objection, it weakens the body.

    Cato continues his pep talk on why old age should not be looked upon as a burden: “I no longer wish for the strength of youth – that Continue Reading

Posted On : 2nd September 2019 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On Old Age by Cicero – First objection, It takes us away from an active life.

    In the first objection against old age, Cato fights against the claim of old age as a period in our lives where things slow down and stagnate and Continue Reading

Posted On : 24th August 2019 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On Old Age by Cicero – Intro, Preliminary Discourses & Minor Arguments

Bust of Cato the Elder   Introduction Based on its mention in three letters to Atticus, Cicero’s friend, the earliest of which was written on 12th of May, 44 BC, Continue Reading

Posted On : 21st August 2019 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Stoic Paradoxes – Paradox 6 That the wise man alone is rich

  We finally arrive at the last paradox; Paradox VI. That the wise man alone is rich. Cicero gives us his definition, revealed later, on what makes us rich and Continue Reading

Posted On : 1st October 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Stoic Paradoxes – Paradox 5 That the wise man alone is free, and that every fool is a slave.

Now to enter the world of Paradox V. That the wise man alone is free, and that every fool is a slave. As part of the commentary of Cicero’s Stoic Continue Reading

Posted On : 10th September 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Stoic Paradoxes – Paradox 4 That Every Fool Is A Madman

Now to attend Paradox IV – That every fool is a madman. This one’s only two pages long! However Mark Webb in his CICERO’S PARADOXA STOICORUM:A NEW TRANSLATION WITH PHILOSOPHICAL Continue Reading

Posted On : 1st September 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Stoic Paradoxes – Paradox 3 All the vices and all the virtues are equal

  As this series continues on exploring these paradoxes presented by Cicero, I uncover and mine out the topics of each paradox. The next we come across is Paradox III Continue Reading

Posted On : 22nd August 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Stoic Paradoxes – Paradox 2 Virtue Is Sufficient For Happiness

    The previous paradox stated that virtue is the only good and if virtue is the only good then logically virtue alone is sufficient for happiness and that is Continue Reading

Posted On : 13th August 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Stoic Paradoxes – Paradox 1 That Virtue Is The Only Good

  Cicero’s Stoic Paradoxes   The Stoic Paradoxes is a short work written ‘during these shorter nights’ of the year 46BC. The work is comprised of six essays addressed to Continue Reading

Posted On : 6th August 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On Birth, Death, History and the Restoration to Non-Existence

 Just like fire we have our kindling and our extinguishing       If you’re looking for hard-hitting contemplations tugging on your sense of impending mortality then you’re in the Continue Reading

Posted On : 22nd November 2017 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion

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