Jan 21 (edited) • Friendship 👥
Epicurus On Friendship (SEE EPICUREANISM COURSE)
How many friends are REALLY your friends? How can you craft a friendship which leads to mental tranquility?
To help you understand the value of your friendships, we have launched a new page as part of the Epicureanism course. This organises Epicurus' ideas of friendship so you can attain the most crucial piece of the puzzle that is tranquility.
You'll get:
- An understanding of what real friendship looks like.
- Another pathway to ataraxia... the tranquility of mind.
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Epicurus makes two points about friendships (Sellars, 2020. p35).
- Knowing we have people we can turn to in times of difficulty, even if we never need to, removes anxiety about the future.
- A community based on the Epicurean friendship is one grounded in mutual care and support, with unspoken assurances of help rather than formal rules and regulations. A positive model for what a functioning community should look like.
BTW THIS is how you get closer to having a happy life: Real Friends.
PS: Here are some of Epicurus' views on friendship from The Vatican Collection Of Aphorisms:
- 23. Every friendship is desirable in itself, but has its origin in personal advantage.
- 28. Those who are overly eager to make friends are not to be approved; nor yet should you approve those who avoid friendship, for risks must be run for its sake.
- 34. It is not so much friends' services that we find serviceable as the assurance of their services.
- 39. Neither he who is always seeking material aid from his friends nor he who never considers such aid is a true friend; for one engages in petty trade, taking a favour instead of gratitude, and the other deprives himself of hope for the future.
- 52. Friendship dances round the world, summoning every one of us to awaken to blessedness.
- 56-57. The wise man feels no more pain when being tortured himself than when his friend tortured, and will die for him; for if he betrays his friend, his whole life will be confounded by distrust and completely upset.
- 61. Most beautiful is the sight of those close to us, when our original contact makes us of one mind or produces a great incitement to this end.
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Epicurus On Friendship (SEE EPICUREANISM COURSE)
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