freeing the body of pain and anxiety‚ living in moderation‚ caring more about friends and family than material goods‚ and finally and most importantly; thinking positively and rationally. These ideas are fundamental for living an advantageous life. As Epicurus says: living a life worthwhile is a life where our body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety. Pain and anxiety are illusions that are caused by our mind. In other words‚ we would not experience pain and anxiety if we did not have any of our
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Democritus (460 B.C.) - an Ancient Greek philosopher who was born in Abdera‚ Thrace‚ Greece. He was an influential philosopher who formulated an atomic theory for the universe. Antoine Lavoisier (1778 & 1783) - A French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century Chemical Revolution and a large influence on both the histories of chemistry and biology. He recognized and named oxygen in 1778 and hydrogen in 1783 Joseph Louis Proust (1799) - a French chemist which discovered each pure compound
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Chapter 1 The Philosophy of Happiness Aristotle on Happiness Since the earliest days of Western thought philosophers have concerned themselves with the nature of happiness. One of the earliest to ask the question ‘what is happiness?’ was Aristotle‚ who‚ in a manner typical of philosophers‚ before providing an answer insisted on making a distinction between two different questions. His first question was what was meant by the word ‘happiness’—or rather‚ its ancient Greek equivalent eudaimonia. His
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Moral Law is a rule or a group of rules of right living conceived as universal and unchanging. Moral law is a system of guidelines for behavior. These guidelines may or may not be part of a religion‚ codified in written form‚ or legally enforceable. For some people moral law is synonymous with the commands of a divine being. For others‚ moral law is a set of universal rules that should apply to everyone.(SR‚ page 87) It is understood to combine the pinnacle of “Natural Law” and “Deontological reasoning”
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of the existence of evil.” David Hume‚ in his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion‚ quotes Epicurus‚ a Greek philosopher‚ as saying the following: “Is [God] willing to prevent evil‚ but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able‚ but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” Epicurus states the core of the problem of evil. If God exists‚ and is omnipotent as well as omnibenevolent
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with curiosity potential revolutionaries are mocked every day. An example of this mockery made can be found in the discovery of the atom. The theoy of the existence of the atom was first proposed in the 5th Century B.C by the Greek philosophers Democritus and Leucippus‚ but because they were punished for desire to explore by society at that time‚ the mere possibility of the existence was not considered legitimate until the 19th century‚ where it was formally discovered by John Delton and Amedeo Avogadro
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familiar with the concepts in the readings: Looking at Philosophy (LAP) (as assigned) The Apology – Plato (all) The Value of Philosophy - Russell (all) What is Enlighment? – Kant Jefferson - Epicurus NATURE OF THE TEST The test will consist of definitions‚ multiple choice‚ fill in the blank‚ true-false‚ and short essay questions. The test is worth 50 points: however there will be an additional 20% extra credit points which can be earned
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HYPERLINK "http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/kant.htm" Immanuel Kant answers the question in the first sentence of the essay: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.” He argues that the immaturity is self-inflicted not from a lack of understanding‚ but from the lack of courage to use one’s reason‚ intellect‚ and wisdom without the guidance of another. He exclaims that the motto of enlightenment is “Sapere aude”! – Dare to be wise! The German word Unmündigkeit means not
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Egyptian methods of measurements. With the help of his followers he discovered that the earth was a sphere‚ but he did not believe it revolved around the sun. Democritus was the leader of a group called Atomists. Although they were unable to prove that matter was made up of small particles‚ they were the first to come up with the idea. Democritus believed that atoms differed in size‚ shape‚ and movement but were all made of the same substances. Aristotle was the most important scientific philosopher
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by Greek mathematicians. Zeno of Elea of about 450 B.C. gave a number of problems which were based on the infinite. His argument was that motion is impossible. Other Greek mathematicians that contributed to the method of exhaustion are Leucippus‚ Democritus and Antiphon. The method of exhaustion is so called because one thinks of the areas measured expanding so that they account for more and more of the required area. Archimedes made one of the greatest contributions of the Greek. One advancement he
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