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The Epicurean Path
Four short remedies dissolve the great fears; then Lucretius rebuilds the whole universe out of atoms — and shows why none of it should frighten you.
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The Fourfold Remedy
Epicurus
The fourfold remedy — the whole school in four lines.
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Concept · 5 min
Death Is Nothing to Us
Epicurus
The argument that disarms the oldest fear.
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Concept · 5 min
Natural and Necessary Desires
Epicurus
The Epicurean audit of wanting.
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Concept · 5 min
Ataraxia: The Undisturbed Mind
Epicurus
The goal: the undisturbed mind.
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Concept · 5 min
Atoms and the Void
Epicurus
The physics that makes the ethics possible.
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Full text · 6 chapters
On the Nature of Things
Lucretius
Lucretius — Epicureanism as epic poetry.
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Concept · 4 min
Religion and Terror
Lucretius
Why superstition, not death, is the real enemy.
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Concept · 5 min
Death Is Nothing
Lucretius
The symmetry argument, in full voice.
Further reading
More from Epicureanism, beyond the core path.