Prosthetic Conscience

Intellectual morality

Was searching around on the net for the phrase lathe biosas and came across Societas Via Romana, and eventually on this article. Basically it talks about the idea that no one knowingly and willingly does evil – people do evil or harmful acts because they are ignorant of the full consequences of their actions. Even though Epicurus rejected much of Socratic/Platonic and Aristotelian thought, Epicureanism maintains this conception of morality, and probably takes it a bit further. According to the principles of Epicureanism, one should avoid doing harm to others because doing so will usually bring harm to yourself (you could be caught, or make an enemy, or at the very least, you will have to live with the insecurity caused by knowing you could be caught). Knowing this, no one would knowingly do harm to someone else if they could avoid it.

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