Stoicism or Epicureanism?

[Georg Ebner]

For every religious person doubtlessly Epicureanism.

[Georg Ebner]

For every religious person doubtlessly Epicureanism.

I'm religious and I voted for stoicism. I find their metaphysical views more palatable.

The basis of stoicism was not pagan pantheism (cf. HERDER, GOETHE), it was monism (cf. SPINOZA, HEGEL) - absolutely antireligious and antirational !!!

[Georg Ebner]

For every religious person doubtlessly Epicureanism.

I'm religious and I voted for stoicism. I find their metaphysical views more palatable.

The basis of stoicism was not pagan pantheism (cf. HERDER, GOETHE), it was monism (cf. SPINOZA, HEGEL) - absolutely antireligious and antirational !!!

Eh, I never said I liked monism, but I think I prefer it to the way atomists think about that thing they call 'void.'

Atomism proclaims Your divinity indirectly by making values subjective.
But Monism makes that directly - what is far more disgusting.

[Georg Ebner]

Also this thread is more about their life philosophies than their specific views on God.

But all "practical" ethics derives from the "theoretical" basics.

[Georg Ebner]

Also this thread is more about their life philosophies than their specific views on God.

But all "practical" ethics derives from the "theoretical" basics.

How would you describe them for Stoicism and Epicureanism, then?
(and I wasn't talking about ethics, I was talking about worldviews and life goals)

Epicureanism = InHalation
Stoicism = ExHalation

[Georg Ebner]

Stoicism. Their ethic, while a little strange is nowhere near as offensive as the Epicureans. It even has some noticeable virtue in it. Yes, the monism is also odd, but frankly from a theist view, pantheism is closer than atomism. Also, in modern America while Epicureanism is very much still alive and just as screwed up. If anything we could use a little more stoic mentality creeping into the cesspool of emotional whinging that is our current political discourse.

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