How to Be an Epicurean (Robert Wright & Catherine Wilson)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Catherine's new book, How to Be an Epicurean ... How Epicureanism is like and unlike utilitarianism ... How the ancient Epicureans viewed nature and reality ... Comparing Epicureanism with its big rival, Stoicism ... On suffering and death ... Epicurean influence on post-Enlightenment science and philosophy ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:09.0	Hi, Catherine.
0:10.7	Hi, Bob.
0:11.3	How are you?
0:12.3	I'm Will.
0:13.0	Thank you.
0:13.5	Well, good.
0:14.0	Let me introduce this.
0:14.6	I'm Robert Wright.
0:15.2	This is The Right show, available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.
0:19.2	You're Catherine Wilson, a philosopher. You're currently
0:23.0	visiting Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Is that
0:29.4	fair to say? That's right. You're something of an authority on the ancient Greek philosophy
0:35.9	of Epicureanism.
0:41.1	You have written scholarly tomes with such titles as Epicureanism at the origins of modernity,
0:45.2	which was published by Oxford University Press.
0:47.6	But you have a new book out that's aimed at a popular audience
0:51.5	called How to Be an Epicurean,
0:54.4	the Ancient Art of Living Well, published by basic books.
0:58.6	Now, there is, as you know, a book called How to Be a Stoic.
1:02.7	In fact, the author, who is a colleague of yours, Acuni, a philosopher, Massimo Piliucci,
1:09.2	has been on the show.
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