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Epicurean philosophy is best known for its advocacy of “Pleasure” as the guide to life. Epicurus taught that Nature endows humans (and all animate beings) with a faculty of perceiving feelings either of pleasure and pain. There is no natural faculty for directly perceiving “good” and “bad,” “right” and “wrong,” “holy” and “evil,” or even “indifferent.” The only guide to living with
…06/21/17 - The following is excerpted from two posts on the Facebook Group:
I continue to believe that formulations of ataraxia that imply that passivity (all we have to do is suppress pain) is sufficient are overly broad and play into the hand of stoic thinkers, needlessly ceding ground to them that is not theirs to claim. In a total quantify of experience, suppressing pain does not magically equate to pleasure itself without further action, else death would be the equivalent of the best life.
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This twentieth of June brings us to the edge of seeing the release of a major new aid in the spread of Epicurean philosophy in the modern world: Haris Dimitriadis’ new book “Epicurus and The Pleasant Life – Living By The Philosophy of Nature.”
As of this writing I have seen only
…06/19/17 - Happy Day-Before-The-Twentieth! In this case, it's also the day before the day before Haris Dimitriadis releases his new book "Epicurus and The Pleasant Life - Living By The Philosophy of Nature." Be sure to get yours soon. Here's the announcement. And here's the Amazon page.