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Reported by:

OBOD,MARLOWE P.

AB POLITICAL SCIENCE 3



ZENO (founder of Stoicism)

-were contemporaries, and both

settled in Athens within a few years of each

other and began their schools.

EPICURUS(c.342-270 B.C)



-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”

EPICURUS. . .



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.



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.

EPICURUS HEDONISM. . .



“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, notdespising 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 throughcontemplation of them and the world they have

created.



- Comments that one should refer “always to thesensations 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.

Letter to HERODOTUS. . .



-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.



- Who thought that bodily pains wereworse than those of the soul. . .

CYRENAICS. . .



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”

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!!!AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM…

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