
55: Epicurus
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche and the Stoics
The Stoics tended to hold more metaphysical beliefs and there's always been a relationship between Stoicism and you know religious or mystical ideas. So perhaps Nietzsche could be interpreted as saying that the Stoics are more accurate and presenting a life free of pain as being neither happy nor unhappy. If you remove suffering you remove pleasure right but nevertheless Epicurus does believe that what we would call a pleasurable life is possible That it is attainable for us to live as pleasantly as a human being could live.
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