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To: Edwarda who wrote (70581)	1/4/2000 8:52:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

According to the Epicureans, the goal of life was the avoidance of pain, which meant they recommended moderate enjoyment and the pursuit of rational pleasures, such as scholarship and connoiseurship....For the Stoics, the goal was apathy, the acheivement of indifference and dispassion, somewhat like the original Buddhists, or Mr. Spock....For the Pyrrhonic skeptics, the goal was ataraxy, an equipoise of mind that cured one of metaphysical anxiety, rather like Zen....For Aristotle, the goal was "eudemonia", well- being, which is best achieved, for those qualified, in the contemplation of nature, and the reflection of the mind of the Divine, and otherwise in friendship....For Plato, the goal was to take one's place in a rational polity, and, if possible, to achieve knowledge of the Forms underlying the cosmos, and a glimpse of the One that is their source.....

To: Edwarda who wrote (70581)	1/4/2000 9:00:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Interestingly, according to Lucretius, in De Rerum Natura, which is the most complete text expounding Epicurianism that we have, the sect professed belief in the gods, only supposed that they were indifferent to humanity. Also, the Epicurians had a kind of quantum theory, the supposition of a degree of indeterminacy in matter that permitted a kind of free- will. Sextus Empiricus, who wrote the definitive text on skepticism, classified Epicurians as "dogmatists" because they positively asserted the doctrine that there is nothing but atoms and the void......