Ethics - How To Live As An Epicurean
Discussion of Epicurean Ethics and How To Live As An Epicurean - theoretical and conceptual issues based on the texts. For day-to-day modern and practical applications, please visit the newest forum on Epicurean Lifestyle and Self-Improvement.
Episode 218 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this episode we address: Can an Epicurean Not Distinguish Between Greater and Lesser Pleasures and Pains?
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"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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March 3, 2024 at 10:25 PM CassiusJuly 16, 2023 at 4:55 PM
VS 63 and why we do not pursue only "necessary" desires.
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This forum focuses on exploring normal everyday lifestyle issues from an Epicurean perspective. As per our forum rules please avoid contemporary political issues or similar topics that would be - for our purposes here at the forum - distracting or divisive.
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Cassius
October 4, 2023 at 3:45 PM
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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This category is for discussion of living according to Epicurean principles in a very un-Epicurean modern world.
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Threads on Friendship are found here:
https://www.epicureanfriends.com/board/408-friendship/
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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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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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