Ethics - How To Live As An Epicurean
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In this section we discuss Epicurean Ethics and how to live as an Epicurean in a world where there are no supernatural gods and no life after death.
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Kalosyni
July 1, 2024 at 1:24 PM KalosyniJune 4, 2024 at 9:11 PM
This forum focuses on questions of ethical issues regarding Epicurus' advice as to how we should think about "divinity. Questions of the "existence" and "nature" of Epicurean gods are discussed in this Physics subforum.
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Cassius
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Bryan
March 3, 2024 at 10:25 PM
"Wherever pleasure is present, as long as it is there, there is neither pain of body, nor of mind, nor of both at once." - PD03 "Whatever is free from pain is in pleasure." - Torquatus / Cicero - On Ends - Book One XI-3
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Kalosyni
March 28, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Cassius
December 30, 2021 at 3:02 PM
Choice And Avoidance - "Natural And Necessary" - Application of the Natural and Necessary Categories
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VS 63 and why we do not pursue only "necessary" desires.
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Don
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Kalosyni
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Cassius
February 1, 2023 at 11:49 AM
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For discussion of everyday lifestyle issues from an Epicurean perspective, and living daily life according to Epicurean principles in a very un-Epicurean modern world.
(*A Friendly Reminder: As per our forum rules please refrain from contemporary political issues, or similar topics that would be divisive or distracting).
For discussion of daily life as an Epicurean which do not fit into any of the pre-set categories in Epicurean Lifestyle.
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Kalosyni
May 27, 2024 at 8:00 AM
This is one of the questions we get asked most frequently. If you're curious about this, post your own thread here!
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The full sub-forum on "Friendship" is located over in the "Ethics" section of the forum. Here you will find a single thread which contains the link which will re-direct you to the location of the full sub-forum on "Friendship".
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Kalosyni
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Kalosyni
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Post here your everyday casual comments and frustrations on dealing with a non-Epicurean world. Here you can "blow off steam" about the craziness of religious attitudes (how "everything" is god's will," no matter how ridiculous; how people who die are happy in heaven - so why don't we all commit suicide?) or other common viewpoints (procrastination, "keeping up with the Jones's," etc) that conflict with Epicurean views. But please - remember the "Not Neo-Epicurean" rules, and don't veer off into "politics."
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kochiekoch
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Cassius
March 7, 2023 at 7:21 AM
No! Epicurus was not uneducated: the real philistines are those who ask us to go on studying till old age the subjects that we ought to be ashamed not to have learned as children.
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