epicuras

Question 1

pleasure

Answer 1

the starting poinyt and the goal of living blessedly. it is our first innate good. it is not the amount of pleasures but the quality of them that should be pursued

Question 2

ingredients to happines

Answer 2

1) analyzed life:
2) prudence
3) elf sufficiency
-the ability to make do with few
things under all circumstances (“those who least need extravagance enjoy
it most”)
4) friendship
Live simply, not in “drinking bouts and continuous partying,” that is, with
prudence and seeking friendship (e.g., life in “the Garden”)

Question 3

eudaimonia

Answer 3

the highest good people drive for, means happinness

Question 4

letter to menoeceus main points

Answer 4

Philosophy is a practice that enhances the health of the soul; all can
benefit; it develops a feeling of gratitude and relief from fear; it produces
happiness

Know that the gods do exist, but they are not what we think they are; we
make many false assumptions about them (the gods always seem to
welcome men who are like themselves)

Death is nothing to us; all good and bad consists in sense-experience, and
death is the “privation” of sense-experience

We make life better by removing the longing for immortality, and instead
seek contentment now

There is nothing fearful in the absence of life

The anticipation of death, and the fear of an afterlife, causes anxiety and
“unnecessary pain”

While we exist, death is not present to us; we do not flee from death as the
greatest of bad things

The wise man neither rejects life not fears death; he searches for the “most
pleasant” experiences; we seek freedom from disturbances of the soul

Pleasure (moderately enjoyed) is “the starting point and the goal of living
blessedly”, it is our “first innate good” (and note: it is not the amount of
pleasures, but the quality of them that ought to be pursued)

Another great good is “self-sufficiency,” the ability to make do with few
things under all circumstances (“those who least need extravagance enjoy
it most”)

Live simply, not in “drinking bouts and continuous partying,” that is, with
prudence and seeking friendship (e.g., life in “the Garden”)

Question 5

the garden

Answer 5

lived by being self sufficient

Question 6

death as privitization of sense experiences

Answer 6

is nothing to us; all good and bad consists in sense-experience, and
death is the “privation” of sense-experience

We make life better by removing the longing for immortality, and instead
seek contentment now

There is nothing fearful in the absence of life

The anticipation of death, and the fear of an afterlife, causes anxiety and
“unnecessary pain”

While we exist, death is not present to us; we do not flee from death as the
greatest of bad things

The wise man neither rejects life not fears death; he searches for the “most
pleasant” experiences; we seek freedom from disturbances of the soul