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Replying to @eigenrobot
What's the difference between epicureanism and utilitarianism?
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Replying to @bobpoekert
Um. It's a specific implementation? Maximizing utility via wu wei? idk to be honest I'm mostly making this up
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bobpoekert
I can give a more explicit explanation of the serious part of what I have in mind if you like
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Replying to @bobpoekert
the salient features of Epicureanism, imo and especially for the present, are political disengagement and cultivation of a rich private life
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bobpoekert
stylized claims: US society suffers from politicization of previously-private spaces, and from deteriorating social bonds
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bobpoekert
one narrative: pre-systematic bonds getting crowded out by unfit, hostile eternalist systems, a la
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Meaningness
it's a shame that continental "critical theory" got more traction than neopragmatism (which had the same goals)
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Replying to @Meaningness @eigenrobot
I lucked out that the philosophy department at my uni was pragmatist and mostly taught kuhn, popper, and james
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Replying to @bobpoekert @Meaningness
Is that a distinct . . . school? My only PHIL class was philosophy of science, got popper and kuhn in that narrow(?) context
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