Epicureanism is more like science than religion
“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science
will win because it works.” – Stephen Hawking in an interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC News.
Hawking used the words “because it works”, rather than “because it is true”. Determination of “truth” in any other way would
require an ultimate authority, and ultimate authority is religion’s game.
In this context Epicureanism is more like science than like religion: it did work for the decent, rational and reasonable middle class of the Roman Empire for 800 years just as well as it does for us today.
“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.” said Stephen Hawking in an interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC News.
Hawking used the words “because it works”, rather than “because it is true”. Determination of “truth” in any other way would require an ultimate authority, and ultimate authority is religion’s game.
In this context Epicureanism is more like science than religion: it did work for the decent, rational and reasonable middle class of the Roman Empire for 800 years just as well as it does for us today.
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