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PLEASURE: An Epicurean Guide to the Good Life
The Next Big Idea
We Are Animals Like Other Animals, Right?
Epicureanism says we are like other animals in that we navigate the world through pleasure and pain, but we can use our souped up brains to do that prudently. Our scientific understanding of how we respond to feelings has become much more sophisticated in recent decades. And so part of the Epicureian project is helping us manage these special capacities that we have to cause ourselves anxiety about things that are not actually occurring.
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