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OBOD,MARLOWE P. AB POLITICAL SCIENCE 3

EPICURUS(c.342-270 B.C)
ZENO (founder of Stoicism) -were contemporaries, and both settled in Athens within a few years of each other and began their schools.

EPICURUS. . .
-Most commonly associated with sensual enjoyment.

-While Epicurus states in his PRINCIPAL DOCTRINES(w/c does survive) No Pleasure is a bad thing in itself

Like later Utilitarians, he does not consider coarse pleasures of bodily indulgence particularly to be pleasures at all. For him, freedom from pain is the principal pleasure. His orientation is more integrated and comprehensive than of most modern writers and thinkers.

Although he is a materialist, he is not a determinist.

Human can exercise some control over their actions------ WILL.

EPICURUS HEDONISM. . .
Whenever life is held to be transitory in an ultimate sense---that is, there is no afterlife---then a tendency emerges for philosophies to emphasize the worldly, almost ipso facto.

The impious man, he writes, is not he who denies the gods of the many. but he who attaches to the gods the beliefs of the many.

This is a reason for praising them, however, not despising them for at least they do not terrorize(as well as reward) men and women, as many of his contemporaries thought.

Humans may be inspired by the gods through contemplation of them and the world they have created.

Letter to HERODOTUS. . .
- Comments that one should refer always to the sensations and feelings, for in this way you will obtain the most trustworthy ground of belief. - Values knowledge based on sensory data a most empirical outlook.

-His view of death is that it is nothing.

Death simply is deprivation of sensation.

BENTHAMISM
The only aspect of Benthamite Utilitarianism not present in Epicurus is quantitative valuation of pleasures and pains. Feels that non-physical forms of happiness and unhappiness have more worth to individuals than strictly sensory ones.

CYRENAICS. . .
- Who thought that bodily pains were worse than those of the soul. . .

Considers philosophy and friendship to be two chief pleasures. Regarding sex he counsels, Sexual intercourse has never done a man good, and he is lucky if it has not harmed him.
Indeed, of all the Greek Philosophies, he is only one that achieved such a popular following. He himself, became considered an ethical prognitor.

 Thee who first was able amid such thick darkness to raise on high a beacon and shed light on the true interests of life, thee I follow, glory of the Greek race.

WIN THE BATTLE,

BUT NOT THE WAR

WINNING WITHOUT FIGHTING IS BEST

WHEN YOU ARE STRONG , APPEAR TO BE WEAK

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AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM