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https://www.facebook.com/group…hy/posts/4995789757136611 Eoghan Gardner In Epicureanism we are giving a lot of realities and principles. Such as pleasure is the goal of life, pleasure and pain are guides to achieve this goal etc... I think what's lacking (surely due to most of epicurus writings being so far lost) is the prescriptive nature of what to actually do. There is a sense in which Epicurus seems the type of man not to prescribe many exercises as opposed to Stoicism which is almost all pr…

There are several good additional posts in this thread, but i have time at the moment to paste only this one by Nate followed by one by me: Nate: Philodemus offers a prescription and names it as such (pharmakos): First up, don't fear God or divine punishment. Don't think that the Natural World responds to your intentions like a Universal Mind that is aware of your personal feelings and disposes you accordingly. Life is about learning, so if you fear being punished from masturbating, read about a…