{"id":422,"date":"2010-11-20T00:33:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-11-20T00:33:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:33:22","slug":"epicurean-precepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/422\/orts\/epicurean-precepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Epicurean precepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The one who understands having grapsed that he is capable of achieving everything sufficient for the good llife immediately and for the rest of his life walks about already ready for burial, and enjoys the single day as if it were eternity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Philodemus (1st century BCE philosopher)<\/p>\n<p>For epicureans, the only relevant criterion of completeness, and the only relevant project is the achievement of <em>ataraxia<\/em>, the pleasurable state of complete absence of pain. <\/p>\n<p>I am not an epicurean. There is no possibility of living a life without pain. There is only the possibility of accepting it and moving on from there.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one who understands having grapsed that he is capable of achieving everything sufficient for the good llife immediately and for the rest of his life walks about already ready for burial, and enjoys the single day as if it were eternity. Philodemus (1st century BCE philosopher) For epicureans, the only relevant criterion of completeness, <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/422\/orts\/epicurean-precepts\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orts","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}