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A 5 page paper discussing the Epicurean view of good and evil (i.e.,
pleasure and pain) and the part that knowledge plays in bringing the happiness that should be the
goal of every individual. Epicurus (342-270 B.C.) maintained that the pursuit of pleasure was not
that which could be procured through physical enjoyments, but rather through contemplation.
Therefore knowledge can only contribute to the happy life, for increased knowledge can bring
increased assurance that the Epicurean way is the true one. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSepicure.rtf
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of Epicureanism, and the use of the term refers to the pleasure it brings rather than the food through which that pleasure arrives. Yet even this usage of the
term is perverse, for Epicurus (342-270 B.C.) maintained that the pursuit of pleasure was not that which could be procured through physical enjoyments, but rather through contemplation. Therefore knowledge
can only contribute to the happy life, for increased knowledge can bring increased assurance that the Epicurean way is the true one. The
purpose of this contemplation would be to liberate the individual from the burdens of false needs and the fears arising from the superstition in which gods played a part.
Rather than fall prey to the superstitions of needing "gods" for various areas of life, Epicurus taught followers to rise above the base nature and become the mortal equal of
gods in part through the application of knowledge. In so doing, man would be liberated from the fears of life, death, other men and the retribution of various gods
in some form of punishment. Epicurean Ethics Epicurus outlines the principles of Epicurean Ethics in
his letter to Men?ceus. In it, he tells Men?ceus that it "is right then for a man to consider the things which produce happiness, since, if happiness is present,
we have everything, and when it is absent, we do everything with a view to possess it" (29). Though Epicurus teaches that man should not live in fear of
the gods, he does not alternately teach that those gods do not exist, only that we have no reason to fear them. They will not be seeking retribution for
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