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13405388 No.13405388 [Reply] [Original]

Okay /lit/, let's settle ir right here, right now.
Stoicism or Epicureanism? Which, if having to choose only from these two, is logically the right decision?

>> No.13405398
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>>13405388
The Stoics say, " Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

>> No.13405428

What comes first? Pain or happiness?
If happiness, then one should avoid it since it will be the cause for pain; if pain then one should seek after happiness as avoiding pain.

>> No.13405447

>>13405398
As I explicitly stated, only from these 2 options. Now begone, christposter.

>> No.13405459

>>13405428
The latter statement is incomprehensible to me lad.

Also, the order in which something happens shouldn't be the thing to judge something by.

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>>13405459
>Also, the order in which something happens shouldn't be the thing to judge something by.