Why Epicureanism, not Stoicism, is the philosophy
we need now
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2021/01/why-epicureanism-not-stoicism-philosophy-we-need-now
CATHERINE WILSON notes:
“Epicureans contend that mortality has to be faced without futile struggles, protests or wails of tragedy. Meanwhile, the joy, not only of the philosopher, but of all of us, is to be found in experience, including the experience of coming to understand how nature and society actually work. Death puts an end to these pleasures, but, as the Epicureans were fond of pointing out, we will not be around to experience the deprivation”.
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2021/01/why-epicureanism-not-stoicism-philosophy-we-need-now
CATHERINE WILSON notes:
“Epicureans contend that mortality has to be faced without futile struggles, protests or wails of tragedy. Meanwhile, the joy, not only of the philosopher, but of all of us, is to be found in experience, including the experience of coming to understand how nature and society actually work. Death puts an end to these pleasures, but, as the Epicureans were fond of pointing out, we will not be around to experience the deprivation”.