(November 8, 2014 at 10:25 pm)Lao Shizi Wrote: You may enjoy this article. It's called "The Hobo Test" There's a great article on Nietzsche and love as well. It's a good magazine, if you like philosophy.That link doesn't work directly for me (it gives the error "This article is available to subscribers only"), however I noticed if I copy and paste the URL into Google and visit the first search result, the full article will display, which I have read.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/98/Epic..._Hobo_Test
I think the author fundamentally misunderstands Epicureanism in terms of the Epicurean hedonic calculus, the prime importance of prudence and self-sufficiency, and the rooting of hedone in terms of both survival and health. The "hobo" example he gives does not illustrate Epicurus' ideal of prudence, nor does he find peace and safety, nor further his long-term personal survival, health, and happiness.
The hobo hasn't implemented a pleasure-pain accounting methodology and hedonistic virtue ethic with cost-benefit analysis rooted in empiricism and naturalism (also integrating emotion and intuition) which would have been a genuinely Epicurean approach. Otherwise in this case he would have avoided finding himself in harm's way.
