The Philosophy They Tried to Destroy for 2,000 Years | Epicurus | Philosophy for Sleep

Описание: The most misunderstood philosopher in history. Epicurus didn't preach hedonistic excess—he discovered something far more radical: that true happiness requires almost nothing, and that most of what we chase makes us miserable.

This is the complete deep dive into Epicurean philosophy: the physics, the ethics, the science of pleasure, the cure for death anxiety, and why a 2,300-year-old Greek philosopher might have answers for our modern crisis of meaning, loneliness, and endless consumption.

WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER:
Why Epicurus's "Garden" was a revolutionary community that welcomed everyone—including women and slaves
The atomic physics that underpins the entire philosophy and why it matters for ethics
The distinction between kinetic and katastematic pleasure (and why most people get this completely wrong)
The Tetrapharmakos: the fourfold remedy for human suffering
Why friendship is the highest good and how Epicurean communities actually worked
The radical social contract theory that influenced modern political philosophy
The Canon: Epicurean epistemology and how we know what we know
The most sophisticated ancient argument for why death is nothing to fear
Daily practices for living Epicureanism in the modern world
Why Stoics, Platonists, and Christians attacked Epicureanism so viciously
The honest failures and internal contradictions of the system
Modern neuroscience, psychology, and happiness research that vindicates (and challenges) Epicurean insights

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:40 The Garden and the Revolution
00:12:08 Atomic Physics and the Material Universe
00:23:59 The Science of Pleasure
00:38:43 The Tetrapharmakos
00:56:44 Friendship as the Highest Good
01:08:58 Justice, Society, and the Social Contract
01:22:37 The Canon
01:36:42 Confronting Mortality
01:55:55 Living Epicureanism
02:11:48 The Critics Strike Back
02:27:14 Where Epicureanism Fails
02:42:17 Modern Epicureanism