{"id":35575,"date":"2018-08-01T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35575"},"modified":"2018-07-11T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T21:48:58","slug":"qotd-the-state-of-ataraxia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/qotd-the-state-of-ataraxia\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The state of <em>Ataraxia<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Epicurus says that nature compels all living beings to search for pleasures and to avoid pain. When they reach their goal, they are in a state of contentment and rest that we can call happiness or tranquility of mind. <em>Ataraxia<\/em> is the term used by Epicurus to describe a perfect state of contentment, free of all uneasiness. <\/p>\n<p>Martin Masse, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quebecoislibre.org\/05\/050415-14.htm\" target=\"_blank\">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 says that nature compels all living beings to search for pleasures and to avoid pain. When they reach their goal, they are in a state of contentment and rest that we can call happiness or tranquility of mind. Ataraxia is the term used by Epicurus to describe a perfect state of contentment, free of [&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":[7,41],"tags":[1073,576],"class_list":["post-35575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-quotations","tag-epicureanism","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9fN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35575","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=35575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44118,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35575\/revisions\/44118"}],"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=35575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}