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For some unknown reason my comment on this ongoing discussion was posted on "epicureanism and empire" marcfrans on Fri, 2009-02-06 05: 51.— The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
This is epicureanism, pure and simple, such as we find it in the odes of Hafiz and the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam.— Mystics and Saints of Islam
The passage from pantheism to epicureanism is not a long one.— Mystics and Saints of Islam
The Roman Catholic and Anglican writers appeared to think that the mere husk of morality would be left with the disappearance of Christianity; that a sort of enlightened epicureanism, a prudent animalism, would sway the greater part of mankind; in a word, that we should be "whited sepulchres," fair to look on without, but "inside full of dead men's bones, and all filthiness".— Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
But what this movement really offers under its new catchword is simply a subtler form of epicureanism, a finer self-indulgence.— Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
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