Sublime

Epicurus was a materialist, but not a determinist. He followed Democritus in believing that the world consists of atoms and the void; but he did not believe, as Democritus did, that the atoms are at all times completely controlled by natural laws.

Héraclite était certainement un personnage peu banal, et pourtant sa réponse à la grande question du sens de la vie est partagée par l’ensemble des philosophes de l’Antiquité grecque. Les stoïciens, par exemple, ont adopté son idée selon laquelle la raison humaine est un fragment de l’intelligence divine, faite de feu, qui mène l’univers. Comme Edg

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Stoicism was a school of philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC. Its name is derived from the Greek stoa, meaning porch, because that’s where Zeno first taught his students. The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happines

Epicureanism—that argued that a happy life requires two things: ataraxia (freedom from mental disturbance) and aponia (the absence of physical pain). His philosophy might be characterized as “If it is scary or painful, avoid it.”

La vita umana ha la durata di un attimo27, la sostanza fluida28, le sensazioni oscure, la compagine del corpo intero corruttibile, l’anima errabonda, la fortuna incerta, la fama casuale; in poche parole, quel che riguarda il corpo è una corrente che passa, quel che riguarda l’anima, sogno e vanità29; l’esistenza è battaglia e sosta in terra stranie

Peut-être est-ce là mon ataraxie. Peut-être Épicure a-t-il raison quand il nous conseille de chercher la tranquillité. Mais chacun, selon les circonstances qui ont fait sa vie, selon le penchant de sa nature et le caractère particulier de son esprit, doit trouver l’ataraxie à sa manière à lui. »