Tending the Epicurean Garden

2014-09-30 Philosophy

Author : Hiram Crespo
Release : 2014-09-30
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 529/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tending the Epicurean Garden written by Hiram Crespo. This book was released on 2014-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be Smart About Being Happy Gods may exist, but they’re too far removed to care about humans. So our best purpose in life is not to please gods, but to be happy. Which is not as easy as it sounds, since short-term pleasures and selfishness create longer-term misery. Thus taught Epicurus, 2,300 years ago. Hiram Crespo brings the Epicurean passion for maximum happiness into the modern age with this practical guidebook. Step one in what Crespo calls the “hedonic calculus” is to rein in desires, so they become easier to satisfy – just the opposite of the luxurious indulgence so often incorrectly associated with Epicureanism. From there, he offers a blizzard of ideas, from healthy recipes that stimulate natural “feel-good” chemicals in the brain to the journaling of positive events, even on a bad day. The highest attainable happiness, though, is communing with friends – it just doesn’t get any better than that. Being smart about being happy means using the best knowledge and tools available. Tending the Epicurean Garden is an excellent place to start.

The Garden of Epicurus

1908

Author : Anatole France
Release : 1908
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Download or read book The Garden of Epicurus written by Anatole France. This book was released on 1908. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Hedonist Manifesto

2015-11-10 Philosophy

Author : Michel Onfray
Release : 2015-11-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 367/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Hedonist Manifesto written by Michel Onfray. This book was released on 2015-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, ethical, and embodied life. He then lays the groundwork for both a radical and constructive politics of the body that adds to debates over morality, equality, sexual relations, and social engagement, demonstrating how philosophy, and not just modern scientism, can contribute to a humanistic ethics. Onfray attacks Platonic idealism and its manifestation in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic belief. He warns of the lure of attachment to the purportedly eternal, immutable truths of idealism, which detracts from the immediacy of the world and our bodily existence. Insisting that philosophy is a practice that operates in a real, material space, Onfray enlists Epicurus and Democritus to undermine idealist and theological metaphysics; Nietzsche, Bentham, and Mill to dismantle idealist ethics; and Palante and Bourdieu to collapse crypto-fascist neoliberalism. In their place, he constructs a positive, hedonistic ethics that enlarges on the work of the New Atheists to promote a joyful approach to our lives in this, our only, world.

Sophie's World

2007-03-20 Fiction

Author : Jostein Gaarder
Release : 2007-03-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 270/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sophie's World written by Jostein Gaarder. This book was released on 2007-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

The Hiram Code

2015-09-01 Religion

Author : Ron Phillips
Release : 2015-09-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 13X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Hiram Code written by Ron Phillips. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these pages you will find never-before-seen biblical proof that you can be assured of blessing and favor in the last days.

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