Archive - Untroubled

The Limits of Pleasure

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 18–20

Aug 11 • Jack Gedney

Gratitude, a Leading Virtue of the Garden

Life is full with pleasures

Aug 7 • Jack Gedney

Living Near the Bone

Translation Tuesday: Vatican Sayings 25, 33, 35, 67–69, and 81

Aug 4 • Jack Gedney

July 2026

The Classification of Desires, Part 2

How does it affect how we live?

Jul 31 • Jack Gedney

The Good Is Easy to Obtain

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 15, 16, and 21

Jul 28 • Jack Gedney

The Classification of Desires, Part 1

Which pleasures should we pursue?

Jul 24 • Jack Gedney

Live Well with Little

Translation Tuesday: Vivitur parvo bene with Horace, Ode 2.16

Jul 21 • Jack Gedney

Epicurean Spiritual Exercises

The illuminating work of Pierre Hadot

Jul 17 • Jack Gedney

Why study science? To become more capable of happiness.

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 11–13 on the point of scientific study

Jul 14 • Jack Gedney

Death Is Nothing To Us: Part Two

When do you consider a life to be complete? We say "right now."

Jul 10 • Jack Gedney

The Fear of Death and Insatiability in Life

Translation Tuesday: On the Nature of Things, 3.1042–94

Jul 7 • Jack Gedney

Death Is Nothing To Us: Part One

Length of life is not the point

Jul 3 • Jack Gedney

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