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Why is there suffering in the universe?

Of all of the questions that philosophers commonly get asked this one keeps on coming up time after time, after time. People ask ‘why is there suffering in the universe?’ Continue Reading

Posted On : 28th September 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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Happy Hedonism.

Like most young men, I used to like to go out and get drunk with friends after a hard week’s toil in my dead-end job. Drinking doesn’t suit me, it’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 9th August 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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The real cause of death

I’m a middle-aged man who is also quite cynical, that’s why I was disgusted to recently see a TV advertisement by a cancer care charity that focused heavily on the Continue Reading

Posted On : 14th April 2020 Published By : Comicus Muo
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The humble honesty of a Roman emperor

  “I am made up of the casual and the material. Neither of these will disappear into nothing, just as neither came to be out of nothing. So every part Continue Reading

Posted On : 26th February 2020 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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The Chief Good

  Introduction In this article we will explore the epicurean notions of wellbeing my primary source is book one of Cicero’s De Finibus in which Lucius Torquatus delivers a broad Continue Reading

Posted On : 30th January 2019 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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On The Nature Of Things

    Introduction The star of this article is Lucretius, a Roman poet living within 1st BCE Republican Rome. What makes this poet extraordinary and quite unique is that he Continue Reading

Posted On : 18th February 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Pessimism of Birth by Lucretius

    A Human Baby’s like a sailor washed up on a beach    By the battering of the surf, naked, lacking the power of  speech, Possessing no mean of survival, Continue Reading

Posted On : 13th February 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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Then I will be happy! Fame and being Insulted

    I wrote this article about three miscellaneous themes we encounter in life. Namely, goal directed behaviour (then I will be happy), fame and being at the receiving end Continue Reading

Posted On : 22nd January 2018 Published By : Epicurus Of Albion
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The Poem of Eternal Death by Lucretius

      Death has no loopholes. All of us must meet it in the end. We go through the same motions in the same old place. No measure Of Continue Reading

Posted On : 2nd January 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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