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Many good points in that article, but this is the heart of it and this is where it crashes and burns into stoicism / asceticism and the opposite of what Epicurus taught. Even before the article starts! Free ourselves of desire? Hardly! The issue is learning to pursue our desires with maximum net result, not "free ourselves of desire."
“I know not how to conceive the good, apart from the pleasures of taste, of sex, of sound, and the pleasures of beautiful form.” - Epicurus
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Kalosyni
February 23, 2023 at 11:25 AM Moved the thread from forum General Discussion And Navigation to forum Incorrect Epicurean Ethical Interpretations. -
Cassius
October 4, 2023 at 3:50 PM Moved the thread from forum Rebuttals to Incorrect Epicurean Ethical Interpretations to forum Epicurean Ethics - General Discussion and Navigation.
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