{"id":2831,"date":"2018-04-04T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2018-04-06T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:38:00","slug":"we-are-all-epicurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/we-are-all-epicurus\/","title":{"rendered":"We are all Epicurus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Epicurus<\/a> was Greek philosopher and founder of school of philosophy named\u00a0Epicureanism<\/a>. Centre of his Philosophy revolved around pleasure.<\/p>\n

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According to\u00a0Epicurus: “Pleasure is the beginning and the goal of a happy life”<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0school of philosophy aka Epicureanism was started on donation from wealthy people because they resonated with it. He spent all the money in setting up the school to promote happiness.<\/p>\n

It was one of the first school which was co-ed, male and females both admitted and encouraged to\u00a0 live and study pleasure.<\/p>\n

Spreading rumors were part of our older society as well and regular leaks were common, some related to stories around sexual encounters and others on the day to day functioning of the institute.<\/p>\n

Despite all this\u00a0Epicurus popularity and teaching only grew more.<\/p>\n

Two key questions that was asked or enquired were:<\/p>\n

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  1. What will make me happy?<\/li>\n
  2. What will make me healthy?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It should not come as a surprise to us but\u00a0Epicurus belief had significant inspiration from Socrates.<\/p>\n

    Once Epicurus asked his friend “Send me a pot of Cheese, so that i may have a feast whenever i like.”\u00a0 Isn’t it surprising, a teacher of pleasure having such simple eating habit?<\/p>\n

    Epicurus observed that pleasure has few simple ingredients:<\/p>\n

    Friendship<\/h3>\n

    Epicurus observed that centre of happiness is having company of great friends. He once said “Feeding without friend is the life of LION or a WOLF.<\/p>\n

    Later in his life, he moved on the outskirts\u00a0 of Athens bought a big house and stayed rest of his life there with company of his close friends.<\/p>\n