CAS PH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stoicism, Eudaimonia, Epicurus
3 Oct 2016
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Nature of human beings what we"re like. Manners = morality, habits, living together in peace/unity, moral claims (don"t murder/steal); not decency of behavior (how one salutes another) There is no greatest good as defined by the old moral philosophers (aristotle, plato, the stoics, epicurus) Felicity: 1. continual progress of desire from one thing to another (not something particular), or 2. attaining what"s desired; 3. When a desired object is attained, we just desire something else. Humans seek is just the continual fulfillment of their desires, no one thing everyone wants, once attained bring felicity for a moment, b/c new desire right then. Hobbes: impossible to get to state where you want nothing at all (stoics) Follows that people have a restless desire for power that never stops. Ex. if u want to maintain present fame level, always need to be seeking new opportunities for fame so as a result seeking more ways for power.
