{"id":14527,"date":"2012-10-06T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=14527"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:52:06","slug":"epicurians-and-stoics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/06\/epicurians-and-stoics\/","title":{"rendered":"Epicurians and Stoics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/philosophy.png\" alt=\"philosophy\" width=\"234\" height=\"198\" \/>Yesterday, during our Acts of the Apostles Bible study, we read the section in Acts 17 where St. Luke talks about St. Paul&#8217;s interaction with some\u00a0philosophers\u00a0in Athens:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>&#8220;While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.\u00a0So he reasoned in the synagogue\u00a0with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.\u00a0A group of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Epicurean<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Stoic<\/span> philosophers began to debate with him&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Acts 17:16-18<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who were these <em><span style=\"color: #993300\">&#8220;Epicurean and Stoic\u00a0philosophers&#8221;<\/span><\/em>? What did they believe? All will be answered in the video below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I2r1KaB15ck?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So, the Epicureans were founded by Epicurus. They believed that things are &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221; based upon whether they give pleasure or pain. The Epicureans were negative hedonists, attempting to eliminate desires since Epicurus regarded it as a kind of pain. His followers didn&#8217;t fear death because once you&#8217;re dead no harm can come to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Zeno was the founder of the Stoics. They determined &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221; based upon whether something was seen as virtue or vice. Pleasure was seen as a vice and was therefore to be avoided. Unrealistic expectations were seen as the source of grief in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, during our Acts of the Apostles Bible study, we read the section in Acts 17 where St. Luke talks about St. Paul&#8217;s interaction with some\u00a0philosophers\u00a0in Athens: &#8220;While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.\u00a0So he reasoned in the synagogue\u00a0with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1628,400,1626,2969,203,204,1627,205],"class_list":["post-14527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-athens","tag-catholicism","tag-epicurean","tag-featured","tag-philosophy","tag-st-paul","tag-stoic","tag-zeno"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14527"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56566,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions\/56566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}