Epicurus was famous for two beliefs:
1) That the meaning of life is to maximise pleasure (and minimise pain).
2) That there cannot be an all-powerful good God (because if there were he'd minimise the pain).
Of course those two beliefs are closely related.
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1) That the meaning of life is to maximise pleasure (and minimise pain).
2) That there cannot be an all-powerful good God (because if there were he'd minimise the pain).
Of course those two beliefs are closely related.
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Epicurus saw no good reason to endure/embrace pain & struggle so he could not imagine God doing similarly.
But if it's questionable for *us* to embrace epicureanism (and it is), it's absurd to think God should. That's my argument in this video:
But if it's questionable for *us* to embrace epicureanism (and it is), it's absurd to think God should. That's my argument in this video:
And I follow up by describing the many epicurean features of modern life.
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One of the signs we're epicurean is the tragic choices we make about the worth of painful lives. Selective abortion is the result of a perfect epicurean storm of three Cs: Choice, Control and Comfort. It's sold as caring but it's the opposite of love:
https://twitter.com/makaminsk/status/1343959542531567617?s=20
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