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More seriously though, nowadays when people call themselves Epicurean, they mean just the life philosophy stuff, not the physics stuff :D

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The modern resurgence of Stoicism in the zeitgeist is exactly this: self-help without actually engagement with philosophy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Stoicism in the mainstream is much more nefarious.