Epicurus

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TETrust in Experience

  9 / 10
• POPractical Orientation

  9 / 10
• ESEmbodied Sensibility

  9 / 10
• VAVital Affirmation

  8 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• LucretiusTOUCHSTONE

  Atoms swerving freely create the world. Religion breeds fear. Death is nothing to us.

• Bernard MandevilleTOUCHSTONE

  Fable of the Bees — private vices, public benefits.

• Bas van FraassenTOUCHSTONE

  Constructive empiricism — accept what is observable, suspend on the rest.

• ProtagorasTOUCHSTONE

  Man is the measure of all things. Truth is relative to the perceiver.

• Maine de BiranGARDEN

  Effort and willing as the felt origin of the self.

• Annette BaierTOUCHSTONE

  Trust as the precondition of moral life; Hume re-read for the feminine.

Concepts where Epicurus sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• The problem of evil
  If God is all-powerful and all-good, why does suffering exist? The hardest question in theology.
• Hedonism
  Pleasure is the only thing intrinsically good. Everything else is good only insofar as it leads there.

Side-by-side with other philosophers, dimension by dimension.

• Epicurus VS Marcus Aurelius

Short exercises in the same tradition as Epicurus's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.