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Too Long Unpraised And Unappreciated - Aulus Gellius And The Clearest Ancient Testimony That Absence of Pain Means Nothing More Than Pleasure
“The removal of all pain is the limit of the magnitude of pleasures.”
-- Epicurus, Principal Doctrine 3
Centuries of commentators have treated this and similar statements as an invitation to make something other than pleasure the re...
Living For The Pleasures Of The Moment Isn't Epicurean — It's Lunacy
The Passage You’ve Seen a Thousand Times, and What It Actually Says
You have almost certainly seen this sentence before, even if you’ve never read a word of it: “Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit, amet, consect...
Against Katastematic Supremacy - Pleasure Is A Unified Good, Not A House Divided Against Itself.
The Current Establishment View - Which It Is the Editorial Policy Of EpicureanFriends.com to Reject
With only a few notable exceptions, practically every modern account of Epicurean ethics repeats the same claim: Epicurus divided pleasu...
Living For Pleasure, Or Dying For Relief From Pain?
“For this reason we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed life.”
— Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus
Is The “Emphasis” In Epicurean Philosophy On Relief From Pain?
In a separate article I have made the case that i...
Why It Is Incorrect to Say Epicurean Philosophy Is Primarily About "Absence of Pain"
The Claim and Why It Matters
The claim that Epicurean philosophy is “primarily about the absence of pain” — that the Epicurean goal is a passive, featureless neutral state free from disturbance — is one of the most consequential...
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