We agree completely.
Recently I listened an "imaginary interview" with Epicurus on Italian Radio (
(I know my English is horrible.. forgive me!)
We agree completely.
Recently I listened an "imaginary interview" with Epicurus on Italian Radio (
No, I did not published this yet. I can send you via mail.
I'm trying to setup an Epicurean Festival in Italy.
I have a lot of epicurean friends in Italian, but we are not a group. We are working on it.
In 2030 will be 2300 years since Epicurus established his Garden in Athens. Are we planing something special for this? A Wordwide meeing of all the Epicureans for exemple?
I think it will be great!
How depressing to read answers like this:
I do not understand: why depressing? Is like what Epicurus said in Menoeceus letter:
"Again, we regard independence of outward things as a great good, not so as in all cases to use little, but so as to be contented with little if we have not much, being honestly persuaded that they have the sweetest enjoyment of luxury who stand least in need of it, and that whatever is natural is easily procured and only the vain and worthless hard to win. Plain fare gives as much pleasure as a costly diet, when once the pain of want has been removed, while bread and water confer the highest possible pleasure when they are brought to hungry lips."
Of course the Epicurs lifestyle is not ascetic. Ascetism in not the goal of Epicurus, and - more important - Epicurus is not dogmatic about that. But there is a lot of similar.
I wrote a fiction story about that moment when St Poul met epicurean philosophers. I'll love to let you read it, but it is in Italian.