Reclaiming Epicurus: Penguin Special

Epicureanism has been diluted into a byword for gourmet dining, but does the original ancient Greek ''philosophy of the Garden'' contain insight that could save the world? Luke Slattery argues that reading Epicurus could help us rethink our materialist ways and challenge the inevitability of man-made climate change. Rather than appealing to altruism, or calling for revolution in the global economy...