“Post-modernists have claimed that the era of philosophy ended with Hegel and the denial of an absolutist worldview.  Now, rationality has fallen from grace in a relativist culture.  Reason no longer serves as the prime justifier, and wisdom is no longer sought in the field of higher education.  Now, the parrotting of professor’s pet theories and the flattery of administrative egos has supplanted the search for understanding.  Higher education has become extended vocational training, with anything not contributing to that end vulnerable to budget cuts and loss of faculty.

“Academic philosophy has failed to meet the deep human need for wisdom and understanding that gave rise to the birth of philosophy.  Philosophy is not an empirical science and loses all justification if treated as such.  The need for wisdom is as tangible today as it was two thousand years ago.  But the only surviving philosophical establishments continually fail to answer this need.  (selected parts of an essay entitled ” An Epicurean Manifesto” by Professor Dara Fogel, University of Central Oklahoma
www.province-of-the-mind.com/epicurean-manifesto.html).

This is why this blog was started. It seems to me that there is a need for a sensible, practical philosophy of life without gurus and priests, designed for the educated searcher after truth.  The Epicurus blog is a small attempt to make Epicurean thought relevant in the modern world and to tie it to real, practical matters and issues that ordinary peopke encounter and think about.