Luke Slattery argues that the ancient philosophy of the Garden offers an attractive answer to some of the challenges of the modern world.
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Epicurus For Today
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Re: Epicurus For Today
Did always like this ancient flower power way to look upon life. In a broad sense I think, yes, you could go epicurean today. More today then back then I would say. Or even more a while ahead. When everybody works 8 to 2, and then goes home, to the pub or to the nature and discusses life or just hangs around doing Ruzzle on the Ipads. Give some hours for the necessarities of life, then hang loose. People travel to much, strives too much.Philosophy Now wrote:Luke Slattery argues that the ancient philosophy of the Garden offers an attractive answer to some of the challenges of the modern world.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/117/Epicurus_For_Today
Re: Epicurus For Today
It's a shame that most of the 300 or so works of Epicurus have been lost; probably destroyed by Christian authorities who hated Epicurean denial of any afterlife thus making religion irrelevant.
I'd like to know more about life in the Epicurean communes. My impression is that they were economically self-sufficient and egalitarian, meaning that members shared both the work and its produce. Plato and Aristotle accepted slavery as natural or necessary but Epicurus seems to have differed on this important point. From our modern point of view, his teachings appear to be remarkably advanced.
I'd like to know more about life in the Epicurean communes. My impression is that they were economically self-sufficient and egalitarian, meaning that members shared both the work and its produce. Plato and Aristotle accepted slavery as natural or necessary but Epicurus seems to have differed on this important point. From our modern point of view, his teachings appear to be remarkably advanced.