{"id":35573,"date":"2018-07-21T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35573"},"modified":"2020-01-19T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T19:13:16","slug":"qotd-epicurus-and-plato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/21\/qotd-epicurus-and-plato\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Epicurus and Plato"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Epicurus had reacted against the Platonic concepts of Reason with a capital R, the Good, the Beautiful, Duty, and other absolute concepts existing in themselves in some supernatural world. For Epicurus, what is moral is what brings pleasures to individuals in a context where there is no social strife. The Epicurean wise man will keep the covenant and not harm others not because he wishes to comply with some moral injunction being imposed from above, but simply because that&#8217;s the best way to pursue his happiness and keep his tranquility of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Masse, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quebecoislibre.org\/05\/050415-14.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Epicurean roots of some classical liberal and Misesian concepts<\/a>&#8220;, speaking at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn Alabama, 2005-03-18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epicurus had reacted against the Platonic concepts of Reason with a capital R, the Good, the Beautiful, Duty, and other absolute concepts existing in themselves in some supernatural world. For Epicurus, what is moral is what brings pleasures to individuals in a context where there is no social strife. The Epicurean wise man will keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526,7,10,41],"tags":[1073,576,1347],"class_list":["post-35573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-epicureanism","tag-philosophy","tag-plato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9fL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54383,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35573\/revisions\/54383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}