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Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life
by Emily A. Austin
A philosopher's modern Epicureanism: desires sorted, anxiety about death dissolved, friendship central. Warm and rigorous.
Read it if…
you want Epicurus as a current philosophy of life.
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Skip it if…
you want Stoicism.
Try instead: The Geography of Bliss →
Three things you will actually use
- Sort your desires.
- Natural and necessary first.
- Friends over fame.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the three kinds of desire.
Our verdict
Austin's Epicurus.
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