PHIL209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Epicureanism, Stoicism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Philosophy at St Joseph's College
• Course: PHIL209
• Professor: Matthew Kostelecky

Document Summary

Achieving a happy life? (how to get there) Epicurius: how to determine what pleasures to follow. Stomach epicureanism: be pleasured as much as possible. Virtue: a way of moderating pleasure and pain. Virtue cannot be taken/stolen from you, whereas pleasure and pain are out of. As a part of nature i can understand the laws of nature-truths, how to act your hands. Don"t follow the majority of people for they are following their body. Happy: recognizing no good and evil apart from a good and evil mind. Only in the mind of someone is where we find good and evil.