These nasty philosophers
Yesterday, at 10 pm I told all the people I was speaking to that I was going to have dinner. Of course, I stayed for an hour reading an essay by Seneca 
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The first thing that surprised me is how strongly a person who lives in present times can relate to what he says and the experiences he describes, specially as opposed to what happens with more modern philosophers.
After that, I noticed it was the usual rant about how a lot of persons seem not to be conscious, another lot of persons spend a lot of time doing things they say they don’t like without necessity, and some others waste their lifes working on meaningless problems. Most people also seem to care just about pleasures in the short term, and spend weeks just waiting for something (e.g. a performance of something) to happen. And finally, after having spent most of their lifes hoping time will pass, they ask in vain for some more time…Of course, we also have politicians and leaders, who “will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name”.
As I continued reading, I started to ask myself “So, who are the ones that are not wasting their time?”
And I was not surprised to see that they were (I suppose you couldn’t imagine it) THE PHILOSOPHERS. I am sure I am not being very original, but maybe the reason why Seneca sees things that way is because he wanted to be a philosopher, and chooses to focus on the people who decided otherwise and are now not happy with their elections.
jajaaja ajaj pero ke dices Hepikuro es el uniko ke molava poko guays sus doktrinas si total el ser umano no semos mas ke monacos ke se rascan sin parar para ke preocuparse ke la hetica y la moral son kosas ke salen de la nezesidas na ke heso ke Hepiquro y los sofistas ke por lo menos raskaban pasta de darle al coco y no les tiravan piedros como a los hestoicos y los cinikos joe mira ke hera lerdo el hepicteto
Soi la piba de Juan y pasava por aki por el vlog de Halmudena. Saludos, paz y jarcor
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Gracias por el comentario:)
Epicuro tiene cosas que están bien, sí. Lo de intentar tener una buena vida, pues aparte de ser de bastante sentido común, es sensato, pero (más allá de que pueda decir que no sea bueno pensar en esas cosas) es algo ortogonal a las opiniones sobre otro tipo de asuntos abstractos que puedan tener los estoicos.
La cosa además, es que “buena” sea lo que el entendiera por buena. Y ahí, sinceramente ya no tengo ni puta idea.