EPICURUS AND THE PLEASURE OF AN SELF-SUFFICIENT LIFE
  73 The promise to the future is more than 2300 years old
 

What is the goal of human life?

Is happiness defined as the absence of physical pain and mental disturbance? Epicurus believed that the unacknowledged fear of death and punishment as the main cause of human anxiety, and fear in turn was the source of extreme and irrational desires.

The elimanation of fear and the social evolution

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  fear has only one direction: it leads into the future...

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Already Epicurus was aware that deeply ingrained habits of thought are not easily corrected, and thus he proposed various exercises:

His system included advice on the proper attitude toward politics (avoid it where possible) and the gods (do not imagine that they concern themselves about human beings and their behavior),

the role of sex (dubious), marriage (also dubious) and friendship (essential)....

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/