Talk:Ataraxia

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Ataraxia in popular culture
This section doesn't belong here. All of these things should be mentioned on the disambig page, to which there is a link on the top of the page. I will therefore remove this section. --D. Webb 23:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Im no expert to wikipedia, and was just trying to expand with some information i was searching for myself. I still believe that the condition Slevin has relates to the philosophical state, and not another meaning of the word. Danielsvane (talk) 21:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

can someone mention a reference to the movie "The Lucky Number Slevin" / "The Wrong Man" where the main character claims he has ataraxia, actually maybe not, that might be irrelevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.14.102.124 (talk) 15:13, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

added "This state is said to arise from withholding judgment or refusing to support any one belief when there is evidence to the contrary" as the article stated nothing about how to achieve this state, perhaps some link (albeit a somewhat tenuous one) could be made to Nirvana and Bhuddism's freedom from desire. -Moomoo2u —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.245.210 (talk) 19:04, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Epicurus
I just rewrote the Epicurus section. It was wrong, implying some kind of duality in his philosophy which he was quite opposed to. Don't have time to do a better job right now. Anthony (talk) 17:43, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

overdoing the pop culture stuff here
There's no end to the number of pop references you could pile on to a word that people may very well just be using for stuff because it "sounds cool". The article is really unbalanced by that. Unless those "ataraxia" fans who are borrowing the term for this and that are actually using it in a sense related to the Epicurean concept, I don't see the point of padding the article with those references.

"The sequel to the popular eroge visual novel Fate/Stay Night is named Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. it borrows heavily in themes from the etymology of the word." Hunh? Eroge? If that's a word, a link might be nice. And what "etymology of the word"? None is mentioned. 72.229.55.73 (talk) 02:35, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Sources for Article Revision
Hello, I am the student tasked with updating/revising this article as part of the University of Chicago's course on the history of skepticism. As part of the assignment I am asked to post a list of potential sources I will be using for these revisions. If anyone has any feedback/suggestions about the sources I've chosen thus far, or suggestions for more sources to look at, that would be much appreciated!

Here are my sources thus far:

Machuca, Diego E. "The Pyrrhonist's Ἀταραξία and Φιλανθρωπία." Ancient Philosophy, vol. 26, no. (1)1, 2006, pp. 111-139.

McPherran, Mark L., "Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium" Ancient Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 1, 1989, 135-171.

Sextus, Empiricus, and Benson Mates. The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Sextus Empiricus. Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Translated by R. G. Bury. Loeb Classical Library 273. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933.

Striker, Gisela. “ATARAXIA: HAPPINESS AS TRANQUILLITY.” The Monist, vol. 73, no. 1, 1990, pp. 97–110. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27903171.

Warren, James, (Ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Warren, James. Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Ethan Della Rocca (talk) 00:01, 11 February 2018 (UTC)