The Epicureans differ. They discourage starting a family and engaging in politics, and they deny that justice exists by nature. It would be a mistake, however, to infer that Epicureanism is apolitical ...
The Epicureans set the absence of mental disturbance, ataraxia, as the goal of human life and claimed that it is identical with the greatest mental pleasure. They can be expected, therefore, to offer ...
Epicurus, born in 341 BC, was the founder of the aptly named philosophy, Epicureanism. It was founded on the principles of ataraxia and aponia. Ataraxia means the absence of mental disturbance ...
There’s no getting around it, or hiding it behind the guise of epicureanism. And the boilermaker invites you to affirm and think about that, because there’s no subterfuge to it, no way to spin ...
Brand was already Joe Rogan-curious, but now he’s gone full John the Batshit. “I have arrived on this stage via Hollywood, via liberalism, via all sorts of images of freedom in the form of decadence ...