Ataraxia rules the world, not love

Interaktive · Jul 26, 2023

Ataraxia rules the world, not love
do you agree
calmness, calmness, carelessness
love is needed less

DennisTate · Jul 29, 2023

Interaktive said: ↑

Ataraxia rules the world, not love
do you agree
calmness, calmness, carelessness
love is needed less
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Thank you for forcing me to somewhat expand my vocabulary... I had to google that word.....

Your idea sure does fit with what was shown to near death experiencer Bruce F. MacDonald about Jesus teaching His disciples the Prayer of Silence.....

In Ancient Greek philosophy, ataraxia (Greek: ἀταραξία, from "a-", negation and tarachē "disturbance, trouble")—generally translated as "unperturbedness", "imperturbability", "equanimity", or "tranquility"—[1]is a lucid state of robust equanimity characterized by ongoing freedom from distress and worry. In non-philosophical usage, ataraxia was the ideal mental state for soldiers entering battle.[2] Achieving ataraxia is a common goal for Pyrrhonism, Epicureanism, and Stoicism, but the role and value of ataraxia within each philosophy varies in accordance with their philosophical theories. The mental disturbances that prevent one from achieving ataraxia also vary among the philosophies, and each philosophy has a different understanding as to how to achieve ataraxia.

In Pyrrhonism, ataraxia is the intended result of epoché (i.e., suspension of judgment) regarding all matters of dogma (i.e., non-evident belief), which represents the central aim of Pyrrhonist practice,[3] that is necessary to bring about eudaimonia.[4]

Ataraxia is a key component of the Epicurean conception of pleasure (hedone), which they consider highest good.[5]: 117–121 Epicureans break pleasure down into two categories: the physical and the mental.[5]: 117–121 They consider mental, not physical, pleasures to be the greatest sort of pleasure because physical pleasures exist only in the present; while mental pleasures exist in the past, the present, and the future.[5]: 118–119 Epicureans further separate pleasure into what they call kinetic pleasure, those that come about through action or change,[6] and katastematic pleasures, those that come about through an absence of distress.[5]: 119–120 Those who achieved freedom from physical disturbance were said to be in a state of aponia, while those who achieved freedom from mental disturbances were said to be in a state of ataraxia.[5]: 119–120 Ataraxia, as both a mental and katastematic pleasure, is key to a person's happiness.[5]: 120

In Stoicism, unlike Pyrrhonism or Epicureanism, ataraxia, or tranquillity of the mind,[7]: 100–101 is not the ultimate goal of life. Instead, the goal is a life of virtue according to nature,[7]: 99 which is intended to bring about apatheia, the absence of unhealthy passions. However, since Stoics in a state of apatheiado not care about matters outside of themselves and are not susceptible to emotion, they would be unable to be disturbed by anything at all,[8] meaning that they were also in a stage of mental tranquillity and thus in a state of ataraxia.
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http://www.politicalforum.com/index...l-prize-in-literature.542590/#post-1069675155

DennisTate said: ↑

My recommendation is:

On pages 137 to 170 in this book.....the number one cause of anti-Semitism by Christians over these past eighteen centuries is addressed.........(brilliantly I might add)....... and it could be argued that the author also address anti- Semitic activity by Muslims........ over the past twelve centuries.........

Here is a good example of the type of literature that can win the Nobel Prize for Literature:

I admit that I may be biased.... but I do believe that Dr. MacDonald has even Winston beat in this category...... because three to five centuries from now more humans will be aware of what Dr. MacDonald wrote than will be aware of what Winston did.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1953/summary/
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impermanence · Jul 29, 2023

Interaktive said: ↑

Ataraxia rules the world, not love
do you agree
calmness, calmness, carelessness
love is needed less
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The mistake often made by those who pursue such states is in forgetting that everybody else is not attending your party, so you must learn how to exist in both worlds in order to place your self in the service to others.

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