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- handle: 10670/1.tnrhuo
- 1522-7340
- doi: 10.1558/eph.v22i1.63
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Aleksandar Fatić, « Epicurean ethics in the pragmatist philosophical counsel », Repository of Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University in Belgrade, ID : 10.1558/eph.v22i1.63
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The paper explores the extent to which Epicurean ethics as a general philosophy of life can be integrated in a composite pragmatist approach to philosophical counseling. Epicureanism emerged in a historical era that was very different from the modern time and addressed a different philosophical ethos of the time. This alone makes it difficult for Epicureanism to satisfy all of the normative criteria for a modern ethics. On the other hand, the paper discusses aspects of the modern ‘external’, duty- and demand-driven ethics that may contribute to the emergence of some of the main issues for modern philosophical counseling. The author points out aspects of Epicurean ethics that are potentially powerful tools to address the issues of mood and meaning in philosophical counseling, and thus serve as a contemporary complement to a complex duty-bound, yet pragmatist view of ethics.