Can someone direct me to a philosophy or at least a religion that embraces pleasure, knowledge, and love?
PAPER 160 – RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA RODAN’S GREEK PHILOSOPHY Social maturity is equivalent to the degree to which man is willing to surrender the gratification of mere transient and present desires for the entertainment of those superior longings the striving for whose attainment affords the more abundant satisfactions of progressive advancement toward permanent goals. But the true badge of social maturity is the willingness of a people to surrender the right to live peaceably and contentedly under the ease-promoting standards of the lure of established beliefs and conventional ideas for the disquieting and energy-requiring lure of the pursuit of the unexplored possibilities of the attainment of undiscovered goals of idealistic spiritual realities.
I honestly don’t think that there’s an individual philosophy that fits you. It doesn’t help that you’ve already embraced certain political conclusions without a solid philosophical basis for these beliefs. Objectivism is a very libertarian position. Although they work with an objective morality, they generally believe only in hurting others if those people pose a threat to you (self-defense, or “retaliatory force,” as the philosophy thinks of it). However, animals are not considered to have rights, and the environment isn’t protected (except as private property, but that’s a discussion too long to do justice here). Animal testing is something that Objectivists tend not to have a problem with, but many of them are against the death penalty (not all of them…it’s actually complicated and much-discussed topic). Objectivism holds the self as the ultimate moral value. As such, it’s considered good to protect and take care of those people and actions that are beneficial to you. If your imme
