Hiram Crespo's Blog - Posts Tagged "literature"
Contributing Blogger at Partially Examined Life
In recent months, I've joined PEL as one of its bloggers. Some of my initial pieces were introductory blogs about Epicurus' Four Cures and the Herculaneum scrolls. There have also been comparisons between Epicurean and Taoist philosophies, a piece on the delightful comedic literature of Lucian of Samosata, and a piece that presents the hypothesis that religion may be comparable to play activity among social species.
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Some Updates
There have been a few developments in the world of Epicurean philosophy. I have a new Spanish-language blog for El Nuevo Día, the most widely-read daily newspaper in Puerto Rico. It is titled Arte de vivir and its initial article was written on the fifth anniversary of the imprisonment of Raif Badawi, and in solidarity with secularism and free expression in the Middle East. Raif received a public lashing as a result of his criticism of Islam in Saudi Arabia.
I've long wanted to connect the French-language hedonist tradition with the English-language work we're doing. I finally read a book by Michel Onfray and published an introduction to his counter-history of philosophy discourse in English. Michel is a celebrity philosopher in France, the founder of the Université Populaire de Caen, and a fierce advocate of retelling a philosophical narrative from the perspective of the "friends of Epicurus, and the enemies of Plato". He argues that historiography is a form of ideological warfare, and that the scientific worldview has been under attack since antiquity.
The Society of Friends of Epicurus has put together a few educational videos on its youtube channel on the canon, on friendship, on choices and avoidances, and other aspects of the teaching. The videos are meant to clearly explain the teaching, Please subscribe to our youtube channel!
I've long wanted to connect the French-language hedonist tradition with the English-language work we're doing. I finally read a book by Michel Onfray and published an introduction to his counter-history of philosophy discourse in English. Michel is a celebrity philosopher in France, the founder of the Université Populaire de Caen, and a fierce advocate of retelling a philosophical narrative from the perspective of the "friends of Epicurus, and the enemies of Plato". He argues that historiography is a form of ideological warfare, and that the scientific worldview has been under attack since antiquity.
The Society of Friends of Epicurus has put together a few educational videos on its youtube channel on the canon, on friendship, on choices and avoidances, and other aspects of the teaching. The videos are meant to clearly explain the teaching, Please subscribe to our youtube channel!
