Epicurus

1. Epicurus has a different view of death in the way that since death is not a sensation, we should not fear death. He believed that the good life consists in simple but deep pleasures and the absence of pain, in an attitude of imperturbable emotional tranquility. We should seek pleasure in conversation, friendship, a good but simple diet, and a prudent life (Pojman and Vaughn, 2014, pg. 538). He also thought that death is nothing to us, since long as we exist, death is not with us; but when…

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Epicurus who wanted little to do with politics, defined justice as a social contract, as an agreement "neither to harm nor be harmed". The point of living in a society with laws and punishments is to be protected from harm so that one is free to pursue happiness…

What makes death bad? The question I will try to address here is: what do we lose when we die. The deprivation account defends that death is bad because it deprives you from the goods you would have had in your live. As such, it does not commit you to any value system and can accept a wide range of “goods”. It can be paired with hedonism, but it can also take into account alternative types of value, such as narrative unity or desert. There is a similar approach, the desire-based account,…

To understand Seneca when he quotes Epicurus “to be free, one must make oneself a slave to philosophy.” (Letter VIII) it is necessary to recognize his Stoic foundation. The Stoic believes to be free is to live virtuously, and the pursuit of a virtuous life is to live in accordance with both wisdom and nature. Assuming providence, the Stoic argues nature is perfectly ruled by divine logos with divine purpose. This divine logos is something we take part in as logical beings, and extends farther…

begin practicing medicine. It’s incredible that someone who lived so long ago, thousands of years before us, is still so prominent, not just in theories and practices, but his actual name is still used on a daily basis. Another interesting person is Epicurus who founded the school of Epicurism. He taught that the only reason that people suffer is because they are afraid of death or afraid of the gods. He said that being afraid of either would be a waste of time. In his words, the gods don’t…

In part X of the “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion,” starts of Demea arguing that, religious belief shapes state of humanity and universal for a better world, but Philo argues that there’s no reasons to believe in God from religious belief. Philo mentions that everyone who sense in religion for god are men who are morally wrong for believing an imagery person who has great power. Demea states that miseries of life from an unhappy men to enjoyments of life, like riches and honors have been…

decision of thrusting away from these decisions is controlled by another part of the soul. When talking about desires, Plato takes as example thirst and makes it clear that the desire is to drink, not to drink a particular drink. In Letter to Menoeceus, Epicurus classifies desires as either natural or groundless and further classifies natural desires as necessary or natural. Those natural and necessary desires are those who make individuals happy…

constant motion. They form in different shapes and positions. Most importantly, atoms form everything, the earth, the sky and the entire universe. Epicurus (341 BC) and his school of philosophy, Epicureanism, added on their own theory to atoms and believed that atoms exist, moving in empty space and are unpredictable which means that according to Epicurus the Universe cannot be mechanical or mathematically defined and luck is largest factor of the Universes’ happenings. Eratosthenes (276 BC) was…

Utilitarianism is an influential moral theory that whether the actions of a person or government are right or wrong will depend on the effect of the action for the results it produces. There are act utilitarians, which take the actions, laws or policies of individual actions into consideration whereas rule utilitarian concentrate on the outcome of types of actions, such as stealing or taking a life. Utilitarians are of the belief system that the purpose of ethics and morality is to increase…