Ataraxia: Tranquility at the End
Episode 219 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. In this episode we continue to address Cicero's attacks on Epicurus' views on pain.
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The typical modern call to passivism:
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All moving toward the same negative goal, as if Epicurus were an angst-ridden snowflake whose only concern was to quell his own fears:
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If I read this article correctly (admittedly I am skimming, because I refuse to devote more time to this) it ends with an endorsement of SKEPITISM. Wow. So the article appears to the another brick in the academic wall of shutting off all hope of pleasurable living by redefining pleasure as nothingness.
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Cassius
January 23, 2021 at 10:50 AM Moved the thread from forum General Discussion to forum The Relationship of Pleasure To Absence of Pain And Disturbance.