So I’m reading The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb (ISBN 039332365X), which is a good book and I recommend it.
Here is his description of Epicureans (presented in opposition to the sternness and self-sacrifice typical of Stoics):
My friends, can there be any doubt whatsoever that I am a born Epicurean? I should make a quiz out of this.
Here is his description of Epicureans (presented in opposition to the sternness and self-sacrifice typical of Stoics):
...men of easy tempers and of amiable disposition. Gentle, benevolent, and pliant; cordial friends and forgiving enemies; selfish at heart, yet ever ready when it is possible to unite their gratifications with those of others; averse to all enthusiasm, mysticism, utopias and superstition; with little depth of character or capacity for self-sacrifice, but admirably fitted to impart and receive enjoyment, and to render the course of life easy and harmonious.
My friends, can there be any doubt whatsoever that I am a born Epicurean? I should make a quiz out of this.
