How To Use ataraxia In A Sentence
- Instead of finding yourself in a state of stoic ataraxia you might find yourself catatonic or enraged beyond the point of recovery.
- It is also possible that the Epicureans, whose aim was also ataraxia, learned something from Pyrrho; there are indications of an association between Pyrrho and Nausiphanes, the teacher of Epicurus. Picnic
- What we have here, plainly, is a fuller specification of the ataraxia that the Aristocles passage promised as the outcome of the process of responding in the recommended way to the three questions. Picnic
- By being reflective and considered, said the Stoics, one can attain "ataraxia," which means "peace of mind" or emotional stability. Politics
- He was a devoted follower of the teachings of Epicurus—“that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily”—although I hasten to add that he was an Epicurean not in the commonly misunderstood sense, as a seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance. Imperium
- Perhaps it is there that actual emotional maturity, rather than the ataraxia brought on by compliance, might be measured.
- The stated goal of Epicureanism is ataraxia, or tranquility of mind.
- Mr. Jaffa is already developing what the ancient Stoics and the great Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard called ataraxia, or imperturbability. How to Handle a Market Gone Mad
- My emphasis on teaching ataraxia is conducive, I hope, toward that end.
- The climacteric stage of the mere exercise of reason is displayed in Stoicism, an ethical system which aims primarily not at virtue but at happiness, although this theory inculcates that happiness can be attained only through "ataraxia" (inward quietness or peace of mind), while this can only be gained by virtue. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics