Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

226 ARISTOTLE A man whose activity is guided by intelligence, who cultivates his intelligence and keeps it in the best condition ...

Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., three of his generals, Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Antigonus, carved up the e ...

altruism contributed to long-range pleasure. The Cyrenaic philosophy, with its understanding of the good life as enjoyment of st ...

attracted the attention of even Alexander the Great, who, on visiting him, asked whether there was anything at all that he could ...

230 Like Pythagoras, Epicurus was born on the Greek island of Samos. At eighteen he went to Athens for a year, then joined his f ...

INTRODUCTION 231 and give some sense of his psychology and theory of knowledge. Epicurus’s first letter,To Herodotus,explains hi ...

232 EPICURUS LETTER TO MENOECEUS I. INTRODUCTION Epicurus to Menoeceus, greeting. Let no young man delay the study of philosophy ...

LETTER TOMENOECEUS 233 Accustom yourself to the belief that death is of no concern to us, since all good and evil lie in sensati ...

234 EPICURUS beginning and the end of the blessed life. We recognize pleasure as the first and natural good; starting from pleas ...

LETTER TOMENOECEUS 235 E. PRUDENCE Prudence or practical wisdom should be our guide. Of all this the beginning and the chief goo ...

236 EPICURUS Epicurus,Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings, translated by Russel M. Geer (Pearson/ Library of the L ...

PRINCIPALDOCTRINES 237 XIV. When reasonable security from men has been attained, then the security that comes from peace of mind ...

238 EPICURUS XXVIII. The same wisdom that permits us to be confident that no evil is eternal or even of long duration also recog ...

239 Epictetus was born a slave in Hierapolis, a small town in Phrygia, Asia Minor (in present-day Turkey). His master was Epaphr ...

240 EPICTETUS the good life, we must go through three stages. First, we must order our desires and overcome our fears. Next, we ...

HANDBOOK(ENCHIRIDION) 241 HANDBOOK (ENCHIRIDION) Chapter 1: [1] On the one hand, there are things that are in our power, whereas ...

242 EPICTETUS you, and others will steal from you. And thus you will undertake the affair more securely if you say to yourself f ...

HANDBOOK(ENCHIRIDION) 243 being free of troubles. Nothing can be had without paying the price.” And when you call your slave-boy ...

244 EPICTETUS Theater at Hieropolis,Phrygia, Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). Built during Epictetus’s lifetime—in his hometown— ...

HANDBOOK(ENCHIRIDION) 245 Chapter 24: [1] Do not be troubled by thoughts such as these: “I will be valued by no one my whole lif ...