wex@ittvax.UUCP (Alan Wexelblat) (08/18/83)
To be honest, Larry, I never knew that there was such a thing as Ascetism (with a capital A). That implies some sort of formal organization which I'm not familiar with. Could you provide references, please? As far as I know, ascetism (little a) is a philosophy that denies that "pleasure" is of any value whatsoever. Holders of this thesis believe that people have been duped (for various reasons) into thinking that 'pleasure' is a worthwhile goal, simply because of what it is. They reject this thesis, and therefore do not actively seek pleasurable things, because they do not value them. Note that I tried to avoid references to *religious* ascetics, who deny themselves things that they know are pleasurable, in the hope of earning heavenly brownie points. These ascetics are not useful to my argument. --Alan Wexelblat decvax!ittvax!wex
larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) (08/19/83)
"To be honest, Larry, I never knew that there was such a thing as Ascetism
(with a capital A). That implies some sort of formal organization which
I'm not familiar with. Could you provide references, please?"
The capitalization was a mistake. I was refering to asceticism not as
any formal philosophy was as the genral concept of self-denial.
--
Larry Kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)
{linus decvax}!genrad!grkermit!larry
(ARPA) rms.g.lkk@mit-ailarry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) (08/19/83)
"To be honest, Larry, I never knew that there was such a thing as Ascetism
(with a capital A). That implies some sort of formal organization which
I'm not familiar with. Could you provide references, please?"
The capitalization was a mistake. I was refering to asceticism not as
any formal philosophy was as the genral concept of self-denial.
--
Larry Kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)
{linus decvax}!genrad!grkermit!larry
(ARPA) rms.g.lkk@mit-ai
--
Larry Kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)
{linus decvax}!genrad!grkermit!larry
(ARPA) rms.g.lkk@mit-ai