The Hedonists Had it Right . . . Almost
Owing mainly to the swinger resorts of the same name, the word "Hedonism" conjures up visions of freewheeling sexuality. . . not that there's anything wrong with that. But that isn't really what hedonism was originally all about. Shall we say that this is a perversion of the original school of philosophical thought?
Showing posts with label Epicuris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epicuris. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
From the Archives
What's Your Drama?
Ok, I'll go first. My drama has been to allow my pain-body to take over my thinking in the context of a love relationship. No...
Popular Posts
-
I went to a religious college for my undergraduate degree. I remember a professor in the Philosophy department answering a question from a s...
-
What a liberating feeling! I've learned to avoid dramatic people! I used to fall pray to their painful whimsy because I used to be dra...
-
Christianity--and probably most religions--can be broken down into two component parts. On the one side you have its mythos. This is the b...
-
This is a section of a much larger article called The Philosophy of Success. Aristotle lived about 300 years before Jesus, but Alexander the...
-
The core principle of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, the granddaddy of all success literature, is the building of self-confidence ...
-
This is the final section of an article called The Philosophy of Success . So Jesus had his say and then he was crucified--most of us know t...
-
You know that feeling you get when you first fall in love? You might feel it all over your body or it might be localized in your heart or...
-
Are you fully committed to feeling great? Your (quite logical) response to this question might well be, "Of course , I'm fully co...
-
Self-confidence is the key to all success. So what is it exactly? We have already said that self-confidence is "the bond that connect...
-
The term, Pain-body was coined (as far as I know) by Eckhart Tolle in his first book, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment ....