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- Title
EUDAIMONIA, APATHEIA, ATARAXIA AND HESYCHASM: HOW ST GREGORY PALAMAS' VIEWS ON HESYCHASM AND ASCETICISM SOLVE PROBLEMS WITH THE OFTEN-MISUNDERSTOOD ANCIENT GREEK MORAL CONCEPTS OF EUDAIMONIA, APATHEIA, AND ATARAXIA.
- Authors
ATHANASOPOULOS, CONSTANTINOS
- Abstract
In this work, I examine how we can use St Gregory Palamas' views on hesychasm and asceticism to solve key problems associated with Aristotelian eudaimonia, Stoic apatheia, and Epicurean ataraxia. The problems of social interaction and lack of knowledge regarding the intentions of others presents a serious problem for Aristotelian eudaimonia. For Epicurean ataraxia, the fleeting nature of pleasure presents further problems, and the Stoic ideal of apatheia is too stable to be real. St Gregory Palamas knew these limitations of Ancient Greek ethics very well and proposed hesychia and ascesis as the true answer to moral dilemmas and the pursuit of true eudaimonia.
- Subjects
GREECE; HESYCHASM; EUDAIMONISM; GREGORY Palamas, Saint, 1296-1359; ORTHODOX Eastern mysticism; ASCETICISM
- Publication
Analogia (2529-0967), 2018, Vol 5, p5
- ISSN
2529-0967
- Publication type
Article