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| Who said man's happiness, his supreme good, consisted of pleasure but pleasure of the right kind? |
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| What kind of pleasures does Epicurus identify as the really desirable kind? |
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| Not pleasure in the sense of maximum sensual stimulation but pleasures that bring peace of mind. This means that the person who wants to be happy must cultivate an ability to choose the right pleasures in the right quantitiy because what produces some pleasure can bring with them pains much greater than the pleasures. |
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| Who said the length of pleasures are more important than their intensity, so mental pleasures are generally superior to physical ones. |
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| Who said we are to keep in mind the distinction between natural desires and their satisfaction and artificial desires and their satisfaction-happiness consissts in the satisfaction of natural desires? |
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| Epicurus- further refinement of his concept of happiness as pleasure |
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| How does Epicurus conceive philosphy's task? |
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| As practical guiding us toward a happy life. |
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| Fear of divine punishment and fear of death are what? |
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| Are other than material factors that can ruin our happiness-Epicurus |
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| What do we need to realize in order to dispel these impediments to happiness? -Epicurus |
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| As far as punishments by the gods goes, they remain aloof from human affair and neither reward nor punish because of their blessed and immortal natures. |
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| Who said all things fundamentally consist of continuously moving bodies- atoms- and the space in which those bodies move? |
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| Epicurus- view of nature of all things |
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| Does epicurus view of the nature of all things include even the human soul? |
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| Yes, the soul too is made of atoms, a sort of swirling cloud that suffuses the body like a warm mist of vapor. |
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| Who thought that heavenly bodies, like planets and stars are natural material objects, not person in any sense, that behave as they do for purely natural reasons? |
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| What is Epicurus conception of God? |
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| As a blissful blessed immortal aloof from human affairs without worry, care, anger, or kindness- those traits appear only where there is weakness, fear, and dependence on neighbors. |
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| Why are we not to fear death according to Epicurus? |
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| Since pleasure is good and pain is evil and since to be dead is to be beyond sensation of any kind remember that when the soul atoms have departed from the body there is no more feelings to be dead is to be beyong good and evil and where there is no evil and can be no evil there is nothing to fear |
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| Who thought a quiet life of withdrawal from the world, including as much immunity as possible from one's neighbors is a life that assures our happiness? |
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| The possesion of what, in Epicurus opinion, contributes more than anything else to a happy life is? |
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| What kind of ethical view does Epicurus propound? |
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| What is the fundamental stoic question, asked by epictetus? |
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| What things are under my control and what attitude should I take toward those things that are not under my control? |
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| Why does epictetus ask the stoic question? |
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| because the resonable person tries to do only those things that are within his power and avoids what is beyond it since unhappiness, harm, hurt, and enmity are the evitable consequences of desiring and striving for what you cannot have. |
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| What should my attitude be toward the things in life that are beyond my control? - epictetus |
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| one of apathy, a privation of suffering, but not apathy in the modern sense of being legathargically unfeeling but in the sense of having no anxiety or concern about them. |
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| "My inner life as contrasted with events in the world. It is not what happens to me but how I react to what happens to me that is my proper moral concern" is what according to epictetus |
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| the one thing that is within our power to control |
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| Who views mans relationship to god as each individual is a fragment of god, our reason is small scale version of his. part of god's presence in our lives is that he has assigned to each of us a director or guardian, perhaps best understood as conscience. |
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| Is there a social dimension to Epictetus stoicism? |
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| Yes, each of us should recognize that no one inhabits a one person universe or is the center around which everything revolves. |
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| What are Epictetus view on death? |
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| we are not to fear it because it is one of the things over which we have no control. It is simply part of the way that the world has been decreed to be and overtakes all creatures in an orderly law like impartial way. It expresses the divine reason that interpenetrates all things in the world, and is therefore to be welcomed as a good. |
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| What sort of ethical view is epictetus? |
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| Self regarding ethics because it is primarily concerned with what kind of life is a good life |
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| First do your duty and second have no concern about what is beyond your control are the two great pillars of ? |
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| Epictetus and Stoic ethical thought |
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