2014-01-05
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Be well, and I hope you love the show today.
So, we've covered quite a bit of ground on the Hellenistic Age so far,
and I kind of want to tie it together a little bit.
There were four main schools of philosophy in the Hellenistic Age,
the Epicureans, the Stoics, the Skeptics, and the Cynics.
All these schools trying to cope with all the problems for the average citizen in the Hellenistic Age that were seemingly impossible to deal with.
The goal of all these schools was to achieve this freedom from disturbance,
sometimes described as adoraxia, sometimes described as just a tranquil state of mind.
But although the end goal of all these schools was the same,
if you looked at a member from each one of them on the streets,
they would look completely different from each other,
because each of them had a very unique way of achieving this tranquil state of mind.
One way to think about it is if you lived back then, which one of them would you be a member of?
Your first option is to be an Epicurean.
If you're an Epicurean, you wouldn't worry about the fact that your family just got sold into slavery,
or that your town just got burned down to the ground, because all you really are anyway is a random collection of atoms.
There's no God that you're beholden to.
There's no afterlife that you gotta be scared of, so why worry about it?