Archive - Untroubled

Don’t Be a Skeptic

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 23 and 24

Sep 8 • Jack Gedney

Why Pleasure Should Be Our Goal

John Stuart Mill is smarter than his critics

Sep 4 • Jack Gedney

How Will a Wise Man Live?

Translation Tuesday: Diogenes Laertius on Epicurean Ethics, Part 1

Sep 1 • Jack Gedney

August 2026

Michel Onfray’s Epicureanism, Part 2

Reviving the story of the defeated

Aug 28 • Jack Gedney

Never Forget the Goal

Translation Tuesday: Principal Doctrines 22 and 25

Aug 25 • Jack Gedney

Michel Onfray’s Epicureanism, Part 1

The man bringing back the ancient scorn for philosophical idealists

Aug 21 • Jack Gedney

The High, Serene Temples

Translation Tuesday: On the Nature of Things, Book II Proem

Aug 18 • Jack Gedney

Emerson, Epicurean Ally?

The great Transcendentalist speaks on behalf of prudence

Aug 14 • Jack Gedney

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

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