PHIL 0450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Epicurus, Stoicism
26 Jul 2016
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Book iv sex and passionate love: main sources of anxiety in the universe because it is essentially frustrating because two lovers want to be at one with one another. You want to possess this other person by incorporating this other person. Book iii: lines 89-98 different kind of argument for why we should not feel death, death is not an experience; no ill or pain, we fear postmortem non-existence but what about the pre-natal non existence. Epictetus stoicism tranquility of mind is freedom. He was a slave and a philosopher the endcuridean and discourses. He is telling people that they can live well as long as they don"t allow their anxiety control them. Anxiety is rooted in ideas don"t think these ideas about things that we don"t have control over. We need to adapt our ideas about what is good and bad to the way things are then you won"t be disappointed (adaptive preference formation)
