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Published on: 2013-04-08
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(...)"unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live. Foolish, therefore, is the person who says that he fears death, not because it will pain when it comes, but because it pains in the prospect. Whatever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer. But in the world, at one time people shun death as the greatest of all evils, and at another time choose it as a respite from the evils in life. The wise person does not deprecate life nor does he fear the cessation of life. The thought of life is no offense to him, nor is the cessation of life regarded as(...)". Adler And Van Doren. How To Read A Book List of classics from Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren's How to Read a Book Quotations Stephen Hicks Ph.D. You shall no longer take things at second or third hand nor look through the eyes of the dead nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my ... Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality (Summary) Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Jean Jacques Rousseau : The story of the mankind. Rousseaus Discourse on Inequality is one of the ... Epicureanism - Wikipedia Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist ... Western Philosophy at sacred-texts.com This section contains texts by the most important writers who have defined the philosophy of modern Western society. Texts here discuss ethics metaphysics ... Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus In this letter Epicurus summarizes his ethical doctrines: Epicurus to Menoeceus greetings: Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the ... Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy Presenting the philosophy of Epicurus including classical Epicurean texts history and information about books web pages and e-mail lists devoted to Epicureanism. Epicurus and Happiness - Epicurus : Pursuit of Happiness While we have lost most of the treatises of Epicurus on ethics and happiness his basic ideas are very clearly outlined in his justly famous Letter to Menoeceus. Epicurus Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Epicurus is one of the major philosophers in the Hellenistic period the three centuries following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. (and of Aristotle in ... Epicurus - Wikipedia Prefiguring science and ethics. Epicurus is a key figure in the development of science and scientific methodology because of his insistence that nothing should be ...
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