The life-world of human
The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms. Catherine Wilson
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The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms. Catherine Wilson
Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to understand and explain things, were the greatest sources of satisfaction in life, so there go most drugs. Catherine Wilson
Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise. Catherine Wilson
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation. Catherine Wilson
I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life. Catherine Wilson
We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp. Catherine Wilson
The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world, and the doctrine that physical and psychological pain are the greatest evils. Catherine Wilson
‘Contract’ succeeded ‘status’ as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society. Catherine Wilson
In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and theologies featuring celestial rulers and their deputies – the ‘rule of the best.’ Catherine Wilson
Atomism had no absolute ‘above’ and ‘below’ and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals. Catherine Wilson