Epicureanism

Thoughts on Tolstoy: A Confession Summary: Thesis: Tolstoy argues that all life is leading to death and without faith in God life has no meaning. Summary: The first part of Leo Tolstoy’s A Confession focuses on the telling of an old, Eastern fable. The fable describes a man retreating and trying to find refuge from a certain beast. He finds a dry well, and thinking the well will protect him, he climbs inside. At the bottom of the well there is another type of beast, a dragon. Not wanting to…

the elements becomes dominant is when the world will end. That way of creation is far superior because it is actually creation unlike the stoic belief that everything is just here by magic apparently and nothing dies. Any scholar would agree that Epicureanism is a far superior way of life because it is much more…

Ethics is the standards of right and wrong that advise what humans must do. Epicurus is one of the philosophers who taught about these ethics. Epicurus believed that the purpose of life was to attain pleasure. He believed that by attaining pleasure, one can live a good, happy life. Although this was his view on life, other philosophers such as his contemporary, Aristotle, had different views of what the purpose of life was. Epicurus was one of the major philosophers during his time. He was an…

The individual, self-sufficiency, and peace of mind were in Epicureanism like other Hellenistic philosophies. What set Epicureanism apart was its common sense approach to life. By nature man seeks please and looks to avoid pain, so Epicurus (the man in which Epicureanism is based) deemed man’s principal good as pleasure. The emphasis that Epicurus placed on pleased earned a faulty reputation in both ancient and modern…

existence requirement I have outlined above. Although Nagel successfully demonstrates the plausibility of there being non-experiential, relational harms, strictly speaking, the existence of such harms are still logically compatible with fundamental Epicureanism, since all the basic argument requires is form harms (including non-experiential harms) to have a corresponding subject of harm. As Nussbaum points out (citation), Nagel fails to address the proposition that once a person dies, the person…

How do we live ‘according to nature’ in the Stoic doctrine? Do you agree with this doctrine? Stoicism is one of the branches of ancient philosophy originally founded by Zeno of Citium (300 BC). What is Stoicism? Stoic philosophy is not a series of philosophical claims about the nature of the world, of what we can know or what is right or wrong. Instead, Stoicism is commonly described to be an attitude, a way of life (Sellar, 2006). More importantly, the stoics have repeatedly stated in their…

It is deliberately paradoxical that the poet who dominates the pages of the Apology should be Lucretius… But Epicureanism is flatly opposed to Pyrrhonist scepticism. Far from asserting that all man’s boasted knowledge is mere opinion, it holds that the senses give Man access to infallible certainty. (Apology xxiv-xxv) Screech’s thesis is also borne out by the textual…

The goal of Stoicism is freedom, from passion. The Stoics taught that becoming a clear, unbiased and self-disciplined thinker allowed for one to understand the natural universal reason for all things. Epicureanism teaches that the greatest good is to seek modest pleasures in order to attain tranquility, fearlessness, and absence of bodily pain. The empire created by Alexander’s conquests eliminated the power of competing for Greek city-states. This cultivated…

Hanh Annie Vu PSYC 511 – Psychology Concepts Dr. David Perkins October 27, 2017 Mid-term exam Question 1 Since the beginning of time, philosophers and scientists have been investigating the composition of everything in the universe. While monists attempt to explain everything in terms of one reality – either physical matter or mental activity, dualists believe in the existence of both (Hergenhan & Henley, 2013). The mind-body question then came into existence to investigate the relationship…

A Critique of Epicurus’s Argument about Death Kejia Jiang Word count: 1419 As the founder of Epicureanism, Greek philosopher Epicurus presented the view that it is irrational to fear or hate death and death is not a misfortune for one who dies. The main idea he used to defend his argument was that no one will feel painful while dead, therefore death is not a bad thing for people and there is no need to fear it. At the first glance, the argument may seem to be plausible. However,…