Unwittingly Epicurean

May 19, 2010 · Filed Under miscellaneous

My hypothesis is that people are born as Epicureans but then they are re-educated. So we are all of us unwittingly Epicureans – basicaslly.

But there is a group of people who know exactly who Epicurus was or Epicureanism was and is, and yet they either somehow “forget” to mention this like Bertrand Russell in “The Conquest of Happiness “

And then there are those who misunderstand and or misrepresent the essence of Epicureanism, but their work is another scientific support of Epicureanism, like Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness”.

My hypothesis is that people are born as Epicureans but then they are re-educated. So we are all of us unwittingly Epicureans – basically.

But there is are people who know exactly who Epicurus was or Epicureanism was and is, and yet they somehow “forget” to mention this like Bertrand Russell in “The Conquest of Happiness “

I will call all them all simply “unwittingly Epicurean” and will go on scrolling their names with my claims.

Tags: Bertrand Russell, Daniel Gilbert, Epicureanism, Epicurus