The Clash Between Ancient and Modern Sages

Early Buddhists and the ancient Greek philosophers, from Democritus and Plato to Epicurus and Protagoras were convinced that philosophical knowledge is a comfort in that it puts you at peace with the world. The Greeks called this enlightened state “ataraxia,” meaning tranquility or imperturbability. As Thomas McEvilly explains in The Shape of Ancient Thought, “Both Indian and Greek philosophers held the highest ethical good to be an attitude which regards with the same emotion or valuation those events which are to one’s personal worldly advantage — such as pleasures and fulfilled intentions — and those which are not — such as pains and frustrated intentions…The ethics of imperturbability involves an attempt to get one’s mind beyond the fluctuations of pleasure and pain.” <a href="https://medium.com/grim-tidings/the-clash-between-ancient-and-modern-sages-648ae3092061">Visit Now</a>