Category: Pleasure
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Significant New Article: “On Pleasure, Pain, And Happiness”
NEW: Now in Second Draft. Please read and comment here. Please check out a significant new article at Epicureanfriends.com entitled “On Pleasure, Pain, And Happiness” by Elayne Coulter. Here is...
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A Combination of Illustrations: Seize the Day In 2018 To Fill The Jar Of Life
I am not an artist and I have not yet been able to produce my own animation of this, but I have become aware that on Youtube and elsewhere there...
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Comments On the “Choice of Hercules”
An influential legend well known at the time of Epicurus on the topic of “Virtue vs. Pleasure” was the “Choice of Hercules” (whose name is also rendered into English as...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July – “Conceiving The Good”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! On this Twentieth of July I’d like to simply highlight one short passage...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of March: If [happiness] be absent, ALL our actions are directed towards attaining it.
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Today is the Twentieth of March, the day of the month designated by...
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“Quantity” Does Not Equal “Type”
The diagram associated with this post is intended to dramatize the question: Does any quantity of a thing ever change that thing into its opposite? When Epicurus stated that there...
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All Dressed Up But No Place To Go
Thanks to Alexander R. for linking to this video at the Science Channel, which alleges that the robot in this example is well on its way to learning emotional associations....
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Is the Fountain Of Pleasure Tainted? Or Does the Taint Arise In How We Approach It?
Some people seem to like to quote Lucretius out of context, in a way that implies that Lucretius was attacking, rather than following, pleasure as the guide of life. Here’s...
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Unwinding A Confusion About the Faculty of Pleasure By Considering the Nature of Money
In a recent editorial, noted economic commentator Steve Forbes makes a point about “money” that provides a very useful analogy for those interested in the Epicurean view of “pleasure.” Before...
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*Action* As A Requirement of Pleasure
One of the strong implications of non-Epicurean philosophy is that our goal in life should be to achieve a “state” of mental peace. Such states go under different names according...