Is Epicureanism the most sensible way to live knowing that life

>>8460620
To whom?

>>8460628
For people in general.

>>8460793
>believing in general people

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>>8460620
There is no "philosophy of life" that will always make sense or guide you through life.
Anything that is "made of words" can be relativized or trivialized.

Best you can do is cultivate some faith and treat philosophy for what it is: mental gymnastics.

>>8460859
philosophy I think is important to building critical thinking

and is a positive influence on personal growth.

>>8460620
>knowing that life is without meaning or purpose
You can't know that at all

>>8460888
meaningless until proven meaningful tuhbuhhunu

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yes if you want to fry in hell

pleasure is spooky

>>8461443
stirner literally said that life is about self-enjoyment

he was a hedonist nihilist but he was subtle about it

>>8460620
I dunno.
Communal life and gardening has it appeal, and I generally think technology and our ideologies have outrun our old world first world systems to the point that banding together in big city life just doesn't make much sense anymore, yet I think Epicureanism in its classical sense is just too vulnerable to breed the maladies it seeks to cure and protect us from, both from outside meddling and within.
It's hard to quell your thirst for more in conditions which simply allow for you to be content, whereas the cure of want or the aftermath of overindulgence often quell it better, and retreating to calm pastures of pleasure can blind you to the raging storm outside your communal gates that seeks to impose and expand on more aggressive ideology.

>>8461471
If by "pleasure" we mean the body's (or even the mind's) pleasure, as opposed to my pleasure, then that pleasure is a spook.

>>8461437
Dante's butthurt about the Epicureans is weird.

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>>8461580
Not really.

>>8461580
Is there something Dante isn't butthurt about?

>>8461561
>thinking you're different from your body

now that's a spook

>>8461711
Really, what you think of as your body is just a mental representation on the actual independent object.

>>8461725
*of the actual mind-independent object.

>>8460859

Faith is mental gymnastics.

>>8461673
virgil

>>8461580
i believe it was thought that epicureans were orgiastic atheists. christians were except aristotle and plato, very cautious of the pagan philosophers

>>8461746
True faith, the kind Kierkegaard talks about, is above that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtlwWMJILBA