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Bernardo de La Paz

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3. A link the article you present in the OP lead me to this article from a site you have cited in the past
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:26 PM
May 10

I found it illuminating, enlightening, thought-provoking and gets beyond the dismissive simplistic attitude that many people hold (like I did) about Epcurianism.

It seems to me that I have somehow found in zen wisdom the best or ways to apply the best of the self-reliance of the Stoics, the joy and inner calm of the Epicurians, and the rationalism of other Greeks (Aristotle, Plato, Socrates at their best, and others).

I enjoyed the article immensely and am still thinking about it: https://aeon.co/essays/forget-plato-aristotle-and-the-stoics-try-being-epicurean

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