PHILOS 2P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Stoicism, Epicureanism
21 Apr 2020
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Overview: the real goal of life, virtue and goodness, primary impulse and virtue, indifferents and goods, fate and reservation, virtue and happiness. For the stoics, the telos ( goal or end ) of life is living in agreement with nature. Main point is to have will and harmony to divine will. The stoics attacked the epicureans" cradle argument, which infers that pleasure is good by nature from the behaviour of infants and animals. They also advanced their own cradle argument : The primary impulse of infants and animals is not towards pleasure and away from pain. Rather, it is towards what is suitable to the individual"s condition and away from what is detrimental to that condition. Indifferents and gods for the stoics, things such as health, wealth and political power are called indifferents : among indifferents, some are to be pursued and some are to be avoided.
