The US National Academy of Science Report concludes that even draconian restrictions on childbirth, pandemics and a Third World War, with casualties similar to World War II (50 – 80 million deaths) would scarcely make a dent in the trajectory of world population growth in the next 85 years. Climate change, war, reduced mortality and …
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“Before you eat and drink anything, carefully consider with whom you eat or drink rather than what you eat and drink, because eating without a friend is the life of the lion or the wolf”. (Epicurus)
Yesterday I gave an example of how Epicureanism could (and has been!) interpreted – as a selfish creed. I gave the example of the man who abandons a wife and kids out of selfish motives of personal pleasure, offering neither help nor support to the family he helped to create. There are plenty of men …
A reader has asked me a question about Epicurean morality. A very good question about pleasure and where pleasure ends and selfishness begins. Epicurus taught that the moral good is the same as pleasure, either physical or mental, and that moral evil is the same as pain, and that you should always avoid pain. An …
“One must give the highest importance to affairs of the state, that it may be well run. One must not pursue quarrels contrary to right, nor acquire a power contrary to the common good. The well-run state is the greatest protection, and contains all in itself; when this is safe, all is safe; when this …
