j1-template 2021.1.27 → 2021.2.1

data/lib/starter_web/_data/modules/defaults/infiniteScroll.yml

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-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# ~/_data/modules/infiniteScroll.yml
-# User configuration for J1 infiniteScroll
-#
-# Product/Info:
-# https://jekyll.one
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2021 Juergen Adams
-#
-# J1 Template is licensed under the MIT License.
-# See: https://github.com/jekyll-one-org/J1 Template/blob/master/LICENSE
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# About this configuration (used for J1 CC only)
-#
-about_config:
-
-  title:                                infiniteScroll
-  scope:                                Default settings
-  location:                             _data/modules/defaults/infiniteScroll.yml
-
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Default configuration settings
-#
-settings:
-
-  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  # GENERAL gallery settings
-  #
-  # enabled
-  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  #   Enables|Disables the use of a gallery
-  #
-  # xhr_data_path
-  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  #   All data items displayed by a gallery are being read from a
-  #   JSON file automatically generated from that configuration.
-  #   AJAX get method is used to supply the gallery with respective
-  #   the HTML code at the time the gallery is initialized (by the
-  #   J1 Adapter for J1 Justified Gallery).
-  #
-  #   values:                           string
-  #   default:                          /assets/data/galleries.json
-  #
-  # instance_type
-  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  #   Specifies if a modules can be run as a single instance
-  #   (only) or run in multiple instances.
-  #
-  #   NOTE: The parameter instance_type controls how MODULE runner
-  #         manages configuration options.
-  #
-  #   values:                           single|multiple
-  #   default:                          single
-  #
-  # rowHeight
-  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  #   All data items displayed by a gallery are being read from a
-  #   JSON file automatically generated from that configuration.
-  #
-  #   values:                           string
-  #   default:                          /assets/data/galleries.json
-  #
-  # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-  enabled:                              false
-  history:                              false
-  checkLastPage:                        true
-  check_status:                         true
-
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# END config

data/lib/starter_web/_data/modules/infiniteScroll.yml

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-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# ~/_data/modules/infiniteScroll.yml
-# User configuration for J1 infiniteScroll
-#
-# Product/Info:
-# https://jekyll.one
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2021 Juergen Adams
-#
-# J1 Template is licensed under the MIT License.
-# See: https://github.com/jekyll-one-org/J1 Template/blob/master/LICENSE
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# About this configuration (used for J1 CC only)
-#
-about_config:
-
-  title:                                infiniteScroll
-  scope:                                User settings
-  location:                             _data/modules/infiniteScroll.yml
-
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# User configuration settings
-#
-settings:
-  enabled:                              true
-
-  scrollers:
-
-    # ==========================================================================
-    # Image Galleries
-    #
-
-    # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # News Panel
-    #
-    - scroller:
-        enabled:                        true
-        id:                             home_news_panel
-        data_path:                      /assets/data/news_panel_posts
-        pages:                          "page${pageNumber}/index.html"
-        lastPage:                       4
-        history:                        false
-        scrollThreshold:                10
-        scrollOffset:                   470
-        checkLastPage:                  true
-        check_status:                   true
-
-    # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # Article Navigator
-    #
-    - scroller:
-        enabled:                        true
-        id:                             article_navigator
-        data_path:                      /assets/data/article_navigator
-        pages:                          "page${pageNumber}/index.html"
-        lastPage:                       4
-        history:                        false
-        scrollThreshold:                10
-        scrollOffset:                   470
-        checkLastPage:                  true
-        check_status:                   true
-
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# END config

data/lib/starter_web/collections/posts/public/series/_posts/2020-01-01-post-test-series.adoc

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----
-title:                                  Series Post 1
-tagline:                                testing series elements
-
-categories:                             [ Examples ]
-tags:                                   [ Series, Test ]
-
-series:                                 test-series
-image:                                  /assets/images/modules/attics/admin-dashboard-bootstrap-1280x600.jpg
-regenerate:                             false
-
-resources:                              []
-resource_options:
-  - toccer:
-      collapseDepth:                    3
-  - attic:
-      padding_top:                      400
-      padding_bottom:                   50
-      opacity:                          0.5
-      slides:
-        - url:                          /assets/images/modules/attics/admin-dashboard-bootstrap-1280x600.jpg
-          alt:                          admin-dashboard-bootstrap
----
-
-// Page Initializer
-// =============================================================================
-// Enable the Liquid Preprocessor
-:page-liquid:
-
-// Set (local) page attributes here
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// :page--attr:                         <attr-value>
-
-// Place an excerpt at the most top position
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-[role="dropcap mt-3"]
-This post is a *test series element*. Post series can help to split larger
-posts into a group of smaller articles. This may helpful, if a large post
-should be split into several *main chapters* but grouped together.
-
-excerpt__end
-
-//  Load Liquid procedures
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-{% capture load_attributes %}themes/{{site.template.name}}/procedures/global/attributes_loader.proc{%endcapture%}
-
-// Load page attributes
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-{% include {{load_attributes}} scope="none" %}
-
-
-// Page content
-// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-// Include sub-documents
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-== The Extremes of Good and Evil
-
-.Release Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, edition, 1931
-The title *About the Ends of Goods and Evils* requires explanation. It was
-Aristotle who put the ethical problem in the form of the question, What is the
-T𝜆o or End, the supreme end of man’s endeavour, in the attainment of which his
-Good or Well-being lies?
-
-For Aristotle, Telos connoted not only *aim*, but *completion*; and he found
-the answer to his question in the complete development and right exercise of
-the faculties of man’s nature, and particularly of the distinctively human
-faculty of Reason. The life of the Intellect was the Best, the Chief Good; and
-lesser Goods were Means to the attainment of this End.
-
-Thus was introduced the notion of an ascending scale of Goods, and this affected
-the interpretation of the term Telos. Telos came to be understood as denoting
-not so much the end or aim of endeavour as the end or extreme point of a series,
-the topmost good. To this was naturally opposed an extreme of minus value,
-the topmost, or rather bottommost, evil.
-
-Hence arose the expressions 𝜏𝜆o 𝛾𝛼𝜃𝜈, 𝜏𝜆o 𝜅𝛼𝜅𝜈, *End of Goods, of Evils*, which
-occur in Philodemus, Rhetoric I, 218.8 ff. (Südhans), and are translated by
-Cicero finis bonorum et malorum.
-
-As a title for his book he throws this phrase into the plural, meaning
-*different views as to the Chief Good and Evil*. Hence in title and to some
-extent in method, the de Finibus may be compared with such modern works a
-Martineau’s Types of Ethical Theory and Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics.
-
-[quote, Cicero · Paragraph 1.10.32, Translation by H. Rackham · Issue 1914 - De Finibus]
-____
-But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing
-pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete
-account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great
-explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.
-
-No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is
-pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure
-rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor
-again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain
-of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances
-occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
-
-To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious
-physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who
-has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure
-that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that
-produces no resultant pleasure?
-____
-
-This he sets out to prove as follows: every animal, as soon as it is born,
-seeks for pleasure, and delights in it as the Chief Good, while it recoils
-from pain as the Chief Evil, and so far as possible avoids it. This it does
-as long as it remains unperverted, at the prompting of Nature’s own unbiased
-and honest verdict.
-
-Hence Epicurus refuses to admit any necessity for argument or discussion to
-prove that pleasure is desirable and pain to be avoided. These facts, he
-thinks, are perceived by the senses, as that fire is hot, snow white, honey
-sweet, none of which things need be proved by elaborate argument: it is enough
-merely to draw attention to them.
-
-For there is a difference, he holds, between formal syllogistic proof of a
-thing and a mere notice or reminder: the former is the method for discovering
-abstruse and recondite truths, the latter for indicating facts that are obvious
-and evident.
-
-Strip mankind of sensation, and nothing remains; it follows that Nature herself
-is the judge of that which is in accordance with or contrary to nature. What
-does Nature perceive or what does she judge of, beside pleasure and pain, to
-guide her actions of desire and of avoidance?

data/lib/starter_web/collections/posts/public/series/_posts/2020-01-02-post-test-series.adoc

@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
----
-title:                                  Series Post 2
-tagline:                                testing series elements
-
-categories:                             [ Examples ]
-tags:                                   [ Series, Test ]
-
-series:                                 test-series
-image:                                  /assets/images/modules/attics/admin-dashboard-bootstrap-1280x600.jpg
-
-regenerate:                             false
-
-resources:                              []
-resource_options:
-  - toccer:
-      collapseDepth:                    3
-  - attic:
-      padding_top:                      400
-      padding_bottom:                   50
-      opacity:                          0.5
-      slides:
-        - url:                          /assets/images/modules/attics/admin-dashboard-bootstrap-1280x600.jpg
-          alt:                          admin-dashboard-bootstrap
----
-
-// Page Initializer
-// =============================================================================
-// Enable the Liquid Preprocessor
-:page-liquid:
-
-// Set (local) page attributes here
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// :page--attr:                         <attr-value>
-
-// Place an excerpt at the most top position
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-[role="dropcap mt-3"]
-This post is a *test series element*. Post series can help to split larger
-posts into a group of smaller articles. This may helpful, if a large post
-should be split into several *main chapters* but grouped together.
-
-excerpt__end
-
-//  Load Liquid procedures
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-{% capture load_attributes %}themes/{{site.template.name}}/procedures/global/attributes_loader.proc{%endcapture%}
-
-// Load page attributes
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-{% include {{load_attributes}} scope="none" %}
-
-
-// Page content
-// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-// Include sub-documents
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-== The Extremes of Good and Evil
-
-.Release Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, edition, 1931
-The title *About the Ends of Goods and Evils* requires explanation. It was
-Aristotle who put the ethical problem in the form of the question, What is the
-T𝜆o or End, the supreme end of man’s endeavour, in the attainment of which his
-Good or Well-being lies?
-
-For Aristotle, Telos connoted not only *aim*, but *completion*; and he found
-the answer to his question in the complete development and right exercise of
-the faculties of man’s nature, and particularly of the distinctively human
-faculty of Reason. The life of the Intellect was the Best, the Chief Good; and
-lesser Goods were Means to the attainment of this End.
-
-//////////
-Thus was introduced the notion of an ascending scale of Goods, and this affected
-the interpretation of the term Telos. Telos came to be understood as denoting
-not so much the end or aim of endeavour as the end or extreme point of a series,
-the topmost good. To this was naturally opposed an extreme of minus value,
-the topmost, or rather bottommost, evil.
-
-Hence arose the expressions 𝜏𝜆o 𝛾𝛼𝜃𝜈, 𝜏𝜆o 𝜅𝛼𝜅𝜈, *End of Goods, of Evils*, which
-occur in Philodemus, Rhetoric I, 218.8 ff. (Südhans), and are translated by
-Cicero finis bonorum et malorum.
-
-As a title for his book he throws this phrase into the plural, meaning
-*different views as to the Chief Good and Evil*. Hence in title and to some
-extent in method, the de Finibus may be compared with such modern works a
-Martineau’s Types of Ethical Theory and Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics.
-
-[quote, Cicero · Paragraph 1.10.32, Translation by H. Rackham · Issue 1914 - De Finibus]
-____
-But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing
-pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete
-account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great
-explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.
-
-No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is
-pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure
-rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor
-again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain
-of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances
-occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
-
-To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious
-physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who
-has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure
-that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that
-produces no resultant pleasure?
-____
-
-This he sets out to prove as follows: every animal, as soon as it is born,
-seeks for pleasure, and delights in it as the Chief Good, while it recoils
-from pain as the Chief Evil, and so far as possible avoids it. This it does
-as long as it remains unperverted, at the prompting of Nature’s own unbiased
-and honest verdict.
-
-Hence Epicurus refuses to admit any necessity for argument or discussion to
-prove that pleasure is desirable and pain to be avoided. These facts, he
-thinks, are perceived by the senses, as that fire is hot, snow white, honey
-sweet, none of which things need be proved by elaborate argument: it is enough
-merely to draw attention to them.
-
-For there is a difference, he holds, between formal syllogistic proof of a
-thing and a mere notice or reminder: the former is the method for discovering
-abstruse and recondite truths, the latter for indicating facts that are obvious
-and evident.
-
-Strip mankind of sensation, and nothing remains; it follows that Nature herself
-is the judge of that which is in accordance with or contrary to nature. What
-does Nature perceive or what does she judge of, beside pleasure and pain, to
-guide her actions of desire and of avoidance?
-//////////

data/lib/starter_web/collections/posts/public/series/_posts/2020-01-03-post-test-series.adoc

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----
-title:                                  Series Post 3
-tagline:                                testing series elements
-
-categories:                             [ Examples ]
-tags:                                   [ Series, Test ]
-
-series:                                 test-series
-image:                                  /assets/images/modules/attics/admin-dashboard-bootstrap-1280x600.jpg
-
-regenerate:                             false
-
-resources:                              []
-resource_options:
-  - toccer:
-      collapseDepth:                    3
-  - attic:
-      padding_top:                      400
-      padding_bottom:                   50
-      opacity:                          0.5
-      slides:
-        - url:                          /assets/images/modules/attics/admin-dashboard-bootstrap-1280x600.jpg
-          alt:                          admin-dashboard-bootstrap
----
-
-// Page Initializer
-// =============================================================================
-// Enable the Liquid Preprocessor
-:page-liquid:
-
-// Set (local) page attributes here
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// :page--attr:                         <attr-value>
-
-// Place an excerpt at the most top position
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-[role="dropcap mt-3"]
-This post is a *test series element*. Post series can help to split larger
-posts into a group of smaller articles. This may helpful, if a large post
-should be split into several *main chapters* but grouped together.
-
-excerpt__end
-
-//  Load Liquid procedures
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-{% capture load_attributes %}themes/{{site.template.name}}/procedures/global/attributes_loader.proc{%endcapture%}
-
-// Load page attributes
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-{% include {{load_attributes}} scope="none" %}
-
-
-// Page content
-// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-// Include sub-documents
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-== The Extremes of Good and Evil
-
-.Release Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, edition, 1931
-The title *About the Ends of Goods and Evils* requires explanation. It was
-Aristotle who put the ethical problem in the form of the question, What is the
-T𝜆o or End, the supreme end of man’s endeavour, in the attainment of which his
-Good or Well-being lies?
-
-For Aristotle, Telos connoted not only *aim*, but *completion*; and he found
-the answer to his question in the complete development and right exercise of
-the faculties of man’s nature, and particularly of the distinctively human
-faculty of Reason. The life of the Intellect was the Best, the Chief Good; and
-lesser Goods were Means to the attainment of this End.
-
-//////////
-Thus was introduced the notion of an ascending scale of Goods, and this affected
-the interpretation of the term Telos. Telos came to be understood as denoting
-not so much the end or aim of endeavour as the end or extreme point of a series,
-the topmost good. To this was naturally opposed an extreme of minus value,
-the topmost, or rather bottommost, evil.
-
-Hence arose the expressions 𝜏𝜆o 𝛾𝛼𝜃𝜈, 𝜏𝜆o 𝜅𝛼𝜅𝜈, *End of Goods, of Evils*, which
-occur in Philodemus, Rhetoric I, 218.8 ff. (Südhans), and are translated by
-Cicero finis bonorum et malorum.
-
-As a title for his book he throws this phrase into the plural, meaning
-*different views as to the Chief Good and Evil*. Hence in title and to some
-extent in method, the de Finibus may be compared with such modern works a
-Martineau’s Types of Ethical Theory and Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics.
-
-[quote, Cicero · Paragraph 1.10.32, Translation by H. Rackham · Issue 1914 - De Finibus]
-____
-But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing
-pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete
-account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great
-explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.
-
-No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is
-pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure
-rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor
-again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain
-of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances
-occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
-
-To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious
-physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who
-has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure
-that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that
-produces no resultant pleasure?
-____
-
-This he sets out to prove as follows: every animal, as soon as it is born,
-seeks for pleasure, and delights in it as the Chief Good, while it recoils
-from pain as the Chief Evil, and so far as possible avoids it. This it does
-as long as it remains unperverted, at the prompting of Nature’s own unbiased
-and honest verdict.
-
-Hence Epicurus refuses to admit any necessity for argument or discussion to
-prove that pleasure is desirable and pain to be avoided. These facts, he
-thinks, are perceived by the senses, as that fire is hot, snow white, honey
-sweet, none of which things need be proved by elaborate argument: it is enough
-merely to draw attention to them.
-
-For there is a difference, he holds, between formal syllogistic proof of a
-thing and a mere notice or reminder: the former is the method for discovering
-abstruse and recondite truths, the latter for indicating facts that are obvious
-and evident.
-
-Strip mankind of sensation, and nothing remains; it follows that Nature herself
-is the judge of that which is in accordance with or contrary to nature. What
-does Nature perceive or what does she judge of, beside pleasure and pain, to
-guide her actions of desire and of avoidance?
-//////////

data/lib/starter_web/collections/posts/public/series/_posts/2020-01-04-post-test-series.adoc

@@ -1,132 +0,0 @@
----
-title:                                  Series Post 4
-tagline:                                testing series elements
-
-categories:                             [ Examples ]
-tags:                                   [ Series, Test ]
-
-series:                                 test-series
-image:                                  /assets/images/modules/attics/admin-dashboard-bootstrap-1280x600.jpg
-
-regenerate:                             false
-
-resources:                              []
-resource_options:
-  - toccer:
-      collapseDepth:                    3
-  - attic:
-      padding_top:                      400
-      padding_bottom:                   50
-      opacity:                          0.5
-      slides:
-        - url:                          /assets/images/modules/attics/admin-dashboard-bootstrap-1280x600.jpg
-          alt:                          admin-dashboard-bootstrap
----
-
-// Page Initializer
-// =============================================================================
-// Enable the Liquid Preprocessor
-:page-liquid:
-
-// Set (local) page attributes here
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// :page--attr:                         <attr-value>
-
-// Place an excerpt at the most top position
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-[role="dropcap mt-3"]
-This post is a *test series element*. Post series can help to split larger
-posts into a group of smaller articles. This may helpful, if a large post
-should be split into several *main chapters* but grouped together.
-
-
-excerpt__end
-
-//  Load Liquid procedures
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-{% capture load_attributes %}themes/{{site.template.name}}/procedures/global/attributes_loader.proc{%endcapture%}
-
-// Load page attributes
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-{% include {{load_attributes}} scope="none" %}
-
-
-// Page content
-// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-// Include sub-documents
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-== The Extremes of Good and Evil
-
-.Release Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, edition, 1931
-The title *About the Ends of Goods and Evils* requires explanation. It was
-Aristotle who put the ethical problem in the form of the question, What is the
-T𝜆o or End, the supreme end of man’s endeavour, in the attainment of which his
-Good or Well-being lies?
-
-For Aristotle, Telos connoted not only *aim*, but *completion*; and he found
-the answer to his question in the complete development and right exercise of
-the faculties of man’s nature, and particularly of the distinctively human
-faculty of Reason. The life of the Intellect was the Best, the Chief Good; and
-lesser Goods were Means to the attainment of this End.
-
-//////////
-Thus was introduced the notion of an ascending scale of Goods, and this affected
-the interpretation of the term Telos. Telos came to be understood as denoting
-not so much the end or aim of endeavour as the end or extreme point of a series,
-the topmost good. To this was naturally opposed an extreme of minus value,
-the topmost, or rather bottommost, evil.
-
-Hence arose the expressions 𝜏𝜆o 𝛾𝛼𝜃𝜈, 𝜏𝜆o 𝜅𝛼𝜅𝜈, *End of Goods, of Evils*, which
-occur in Philodemus, Rhetoric I, 218.8 ff. (Südhans), and are translated by
-Cicero finis bonorum et malorum.
-
-As a title for his book he throws this phrase into the plural, meaning
-*different views as to the Chief Good and Evil*. Hence in title and to some
-extent in method, the de Finibus may be compared with such modern works a
-Martineau’s Types of Ethical Theory and Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics.
-
-[quote, Cicero · Paragraph 1.10.32, Translation by H. Rackham · Issue 1914 - De Finibus]
-____
-But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing
-pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete
-account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great
-explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.
-
-No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is
-pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure
-rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor
-again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain
-of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances
-occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
-
-To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious
-physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who
-has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure
-that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that
-produces no resultant pleasure?
-____
-
-This he sets out to prove as follows: every animal, as soon as it is born,
-seeks for pleasure, and delights in it as the Chief Good, while it recoils
-from pain as the Chief Evil, and so far as possible avoids it. This it does
-as long as it remains unperverted, at the prompting of Nature’s own unbiased
-and honest verdict.
-
-Hence Epicurus refuses to admit any necessity for argument or discussion to
-prove that pleasure is desirable and pain to be avoided. These facts, he
-thinks, are perceived by the senses, as that fire is hot, snow white, honey
-sweet, none of which things need be proved by elaborate argument: it is enough
-merely to draw attention to them.
-
-For there is a difference, he holds, between formal syllogistic proof of a
-thing and a mere notice or reminder: the former is the method for discovering
-abstruse and recondite truths, the latter for indicating facts that are obvious
-and evident.
-
-Strip mankind of sensation, and nothing remains; it follows that Nature herself
-is the judge of that which is in accordance with or contrary to nature. What
-does Nature perceive or what does she judge of, beside pleasure and pain, to
-guide her actions of desire and of avoidance?
-//////////