Beliefs
Highest good and greatest evil
Highest good= pleasure
Greatest evil= death
Epicurus is one of the major philosophers in this period
Hellinistic
Overall idea of the soul
Dies with the body, it needs a body to live
Philosophy is mainly this
The art of living
Epicurus was influenced by him
Aristotle
ways to feel happiness
Friends, sharing money, not showing off luxuries
Basic constituents of the world according to Epicurus
1 .Atoms (which are uncuttable, microscopic bits of matter) moving in the void (which is simply empty space).
The name of the school he created in Athens
The garden
Three mistakes of happiness
1. Thinking on romantic and sexual relationships
2. Prioritizing money
3. Luxury
Epicureans were not interested in formal logic rather they believed in this
Theory of the formation of beliefs
Epicurus Metaphysics
we see that there are bodies in motion
nothing comes into existence from what does not exist.
everything which occurs there is a reason or explanation for why it occurs, and why this way rather than that
Things tha complement happiness