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Eikadistes
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Martin’s post in the thread Epicurean strategies for dealing with bad habits and urges..Here are examples of what has worked for me:
Chocolate mousse:
In the past, I splurged on chocolate mousse at a buffet restaurent where I ate about once per week. Eating a lot of chocolate mousse was certainly a bad habit because of the high sugar content.… -
Godfrey
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Martin’s post in the thread Epicurean strategies for dealing with bad habits and urges..Here are examples of what has worked for me:
Chocolate mousse:
In the past, I splurged on chocolate mousse at a buffet restaurent where I ate about once per week. Eating a lot of chocolate mousse was certainly a bad habit because of the high sugar content.… -
Godfrey
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Cassius’s post in the thread Epicurean strategies for dealing with bad habits and urges..[…]
My first response would be that Epicurus would never look at life from this perspective. Life is all about feeling and Diogenes Laertius says that Epicurus held that the wise man will feel his emotions more deeply than will others, and this will not… -
Adrastus
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM Replied to the thread Epicurean strategies for dealing with bad habits and urges..PostEmotions are also just one piece of our Canon. Society is often quick to fill our anticipations with things we could be afraid of and our emotions might well follow suit if we believe such sources of information to be trustworthy; yet using our sense of… -
Adrastus
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Cassius’s post in the thread Epicurean strategies for dealing with bad habits and urges..Right and I see that your thread title is "bad habits and urges." But it seems clear that Stoicism and other aspects of Greek thought deemed all emotion as bad, and I wanted to get that point out front in the discussion. Once it's clear that emotion… -
Adrastus
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Cassius’s post in the thread Epicurean strategies for dealing with bad habits and urges..[…]
My first response would be that Epicurus would never look at life from this perspective. Life is all about feeling and Diogenes Laertius says that Epicurus held that the wise man will feel his emotions more deeply than will others, and this will not… -
Kalosyni
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Cassius’s post in the thread 'Their God Is The Belly" / "The Root of All Good Is The Pleasure Of The Stomach" And Similar Attributions.This weekend in our Sunday zoom which was devoted substantially to food issues we tangentially discussed the statements that I gather are traditionally attributed to Metrodorus to the effect that the stomach or belly is of particular significance.
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Cassius
PostNovember 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM What say you guys as to possible relation between this and 3 and 4 of Tetrapharmakon? -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM […]
Cassius ,
From my reading in the Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism, Chapter 7 Hedonism, by Voula Tsouna, the phrase describing pleasure as “nature congenial to us”, that indicates that the pleasure state is our body’s natural state.…
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