{"id":9511,"date":"2012-07-30T04:42:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T04:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/epicurus-in-one-sentence-and-the-comforts-of-materialism\/"},"modified":"2012-07-30T04:42:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T04:42:28","slug":"epicurus-in-one-sentence-and-the-comforts-of-materialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/epicurus-in-one-sentence-and-the-comforts-of-materialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Epicurus in One Sentence and the Comforts of Materialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">When we are, death is not; when death is, we are not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Some say people hold to religion because of its comforts.&#0160; A superficial way of&#0160;thinking &#0160;given religion&#39;s moral demands and&#0160; the fears it inspires.&#0160; It was precisely such fears for which Epicurean materialism &#0160;was prescribed as anodyne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Materialism has its comforts too.&#0160; Will you then say that people believe it because it is comforting?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Materialism has its comforts but it also renders human life meaningless. That goes on the debit side of the balance sheet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we are, death is not; when death is, we are not. Some say people hold to religion because of its comforts.&#0160; A superficial way of&#0160;thinking &#0160;given religion&#39;s moral demands and&#0160; the fears it inspires.&#0160; It was precisely such fears for which Epicurean materialism &#0160;was prescribed as anodyne. Materialism has its comforts too.&#0160; Will you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/30\/epicurus-in-one-sentence-and-the-comforts-of-materialism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Epicurus in One Sentence and the Comforts of Materialism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epicureanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}