Could Epicurus save us?
A philosophy of pleasure could cure our modern ills
Published in
12 min readFeb 2, 2019
For over a hundred years archaeologists have been reconstructing, piece by piece, a message of hope from the ancient past.
The message is estimated to comprise of 25,000 words inscribed in 260 square meters of stone. That stone crumbled and was scattered about the ruined site of the ancient Greek-speaking…