Ideas
What was the first Epicurean school called?
The garden.
Reject desires and institutions; live a simple life.
Cynicism
Also known as "the dog".
Diogenes
Which one is the first principle of cynicism philosophy?
Live in Accordance with Nature
It suspends judgement on religious and supernatural claims.
Agnosticism
Which pre-Socratic perspective had a decisive influence on Epicurus and his hedonism?
Atomism
What are the two types of skepticism in Antiquity?
Academic and Pyrrhonian
Someone who believed that people should always be “quick to question and slow to believe”
Pyrrho of Elis
Which one is the highest good according hedonists?
Avoid pain
What are the two different kinds of hedonism?
Cyrenaic (irrational) and Epicureanism (rational)
This is included in Hedonism. One may like the taste of alcohol, but not the hangover the next day: so we must follow..
Moderation
Wich one is the historical context of cynicism, skepticism and hedonism?
Crisis of sense after the death of Alexander the Great and the doubts about Plato philosophy
Fundamental representative of the philosophical school that dealt with knowledge and held the impossibility of knowledge by experience and scientific knowledge.
Sextus Empiricus
What are the three main beliefs of Cynicism?
Live according to yourself (do not conform to society.)
Live free from desires
Live simply
Why is Cyrenaic hedonism not really understood as hedonism?
Because irrational pleasure cannot lead to a good life.
What is radical skepticism?
It questions the possibility of knowledge and certainty by posing absolute ideas.
How many years ago were stoicism, hedonism and skepticism founded?
300 B.C.E
Epicurus assumed that people reason would allow a good life because:
Free will and control their desire for pleasure
Why is autarchy the fundamental principle for dogs?
Because the only one who can rule over me is myself: not society, not my family, not my loves. Only the control and rule of self over self.
What is the main difference between stoicism and hedonism?
Stoicism seeks to accept what happens while hedonism seeks to be happy with those little things that happen.
What is the main point in common, but at the same time of difference, between cynicism and stoicism?
The live according nature: one of them propose the idea to life as a dog and the other the idea of life according reason.
What is Hellenism?
The historical epoch given in Greece and Rome where their culture expanded throughout the Mediterranean, Africa, Near Asia and Europe.
What are Epicurus' Three Key Goods?
Friends, Freedom, an Analysed Life.
What is Epicurus' tetrapharmakos?
The remedy for the good life against irrational fears: gods, death, time and pain.
What is the theme of the skeptic?
Certainty is necessary for there to be knowledge, and if doubt is possible, then we do not have certainty.