Epicureanism, an alternative to religion

Somebody once said that religion is basically a question of making you feel better about yourself.  If so, there isn’t much wrong with that. Let those who get reassurance from it get on with it undisturbed. Where it is potentially distasteful is when missionaries at home and abroad try to "convert" the unbelievers, sometimes offensively, …

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Self-interest and selfishness

The focus of Epicurus’ ethical writings [what little we have] is on the individual and his self-interest. But there is far too much in the Principle Doctrines and the Vatican aphorism about friendship and justice for one to characterize his philosophy as purely, or even predominately self-regarding. So, if were one to read only The …

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