In the New Testament book of Revelation, the New Jerusalem is described as a place where God will wipe away every tear from his peoples eyes and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying and there shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away (21:4; NKJV). Woods question therefore is why would anyone reject such a great philosophy? Nor should we set our hearts on anything, for how seldom we can win our desires! Though it fell out of favor in the third century AD, it nevertheless anticipated todays intellectual climate in startling ways. genuine forgiveness is the point where self esteem is restored. In a broad sense, it is a system of ethics embracing every conception or form of life that can be traced to the principles of his philosophy. Epicureanism: the ancient philosophy that won't go away Andrew Petiprin December 12, 2019 at 12:00 am How to Be an Epicurean By Catherine Wilson Basic Books, 304pp, 30/$30 "Our starting point. What Christianity offers to those who cling to Jesus as his or her sins atoning sacrifice is not personal extinction of all and the universes heat death, but an everlasting enjoyment of relationship with God and his people. 548, 554. led an eponymous school of thoughtEpicureanismthat believed a happy life requires two things: ataraxia (freedom from mental disturbance) and aponia (the absence of . 300. Most people take most of their pleasures in ways that do not cause others pain. If the Epicureans ethics are the result of evolutionary forces, so too are the psychopaths and therefore no less justified. and banishing those beliefs through which the greatest tumults take possession of the soul., Accustom [ourselves] to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply sentience, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable . 2 - You Should Serve People in General before Your Friends and Family The idea of cosmopolis is prevalent in both Stoicism and Christianity. We should remember that those things are not part of the inner self and do not define us as human beings.