Translations

Some Laws Are Unjust. So It Goes.

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 36–38

Nov 3 • Jack Gedney

I Have No Desire to Break the Law

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 34–35

Oct 27 • Jack Gedney

What Is Epicurean Justice?

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 31–33

Oct 20 • Jack Gedney

A Stoic Embraces Epicurean Simplicity

Translation Tuesday: Seneca Letters 2 and 4

Oct 13 • Jack Gedney

Why You Need to Cultivate Friendship and Familial Affection

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 27 and 28

Oct 6 • Jack Gedney

What Kinds of Pleasure Do We Want?

Translation Tuesday: Diogenes Laertius on Epicurean Ethics, Part 3

Sep 29 • Jack Gedney

Some Vital Aphorisms on the Classification of Desires

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 26, 29, 30

Sep 22 • Jack Gedney

More Qualities of the Wise Man

Translation Tuesday: Diogenes Laertius on Epicurean Ethics, Part 2

Sep 15 • Jack Gedney

Don’t Be a Skeptic

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 23 and 24

Sep 8 • Jack Gedney

How Will a Wise Man Live?

Translation Tuesday: Diogenes Laertius on Epicurean Ethics, Part 1

Sep 1 • Jack Gedney

Never Forget the Goal

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 22 and 25

Aug 25 • Jack Gedney

The High, Serene Temples

Translation Tuesday: On the Nature of Things, Book II Proem

Aug 18 • Jack Gedney

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