Epicureanism asks us to temper our insatiable desires for more power, wealth and possessions. But it also releases us from superstition and challenges us to know the world through science; to look deeply into the secrets of nature. To investigate.
Luke Slattery, Reclaiming Epicurus [Amazon]
if practised en masse, it would remake our world in the name not so much of economic and social revolution as personal happiness.
Luke Slattery, Reclaiming Epicurus [Amazon]
And yet it is not for the happiness of others, but for personal happiness, that one embraces the ethics of Epicurus. We should find some distance from the incessant urgings of desire for our own psychic health.
Luke Slattery, Reclaiming Epicurus [Amazon]
