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'In this book, I relate the pleasures, as well as the virtues and difficulties of a perhaps simpler than average North American life.'So begins ecological thinker and writer Stephanie Mills's Epicurean Simplicity, a thoughtful paean to living, like Thoreau, a deliberate life. Mills's account of the simple life reaches deep into classical sources of pleasure -- good food, good health, good friends, and particularly the endless delights of the natural world. Her musings about the life she desires -- and the life she has created -- ultimately led her to the third century Greek philosopher Epicurus, whose philosophy was premised on the trustworthiness of the senses, a philosophy that Mills wholeheartedly embraces. While later centuries have come to associate Epicurus's name with hedonism, Mills discovered that he extolled simplicity and prudence as the surest means to pleasure, and his thinking offers an important philosophical touchstone for the book. As the author explains, one of the primary motivations for her pursuit of simplicity is her concern about the impacts of a consumerist lifestyle on the natural world. Mills touches on broad range of topics relating to that issue -- socia

Author

Mills, Stephanie, 1948-

Publisher

Washington, DC: Island Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781610912419

Subjects

Nature, History, Management

Rating

3.48 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14